Re: [ravi madipadaga <address@hidden>] regarding swarm

[Paul E Johnson]

Dear Ravi

We currently have more explicit how-to instructions for Swarm in
Objective-C. I'd suggest you take a look at the Swarm User Guide to get
an idea of the frame work. 

I'm gathering from your comments that you have not programmed before,
and there are some comments for people like you that I've just added in
the SwarmFaq. 

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/SwarmFaq/SwarmOnlineFaq.html#7

I outline a few explicit steps people can follow if they are brand new
to programming and swarm. You should try to run the swarmapps in
objective c, in my opinion, just to see what's up.

On the java side, there are code packages for jheatbugs and jmousetrap
on the SDG site, and there is also a java tutorial that Marcus Daniels
prepared. It has a source code pacakge with it called SDG.  I learned a
lot
from the contributed application jipd, which you can find in the anarchy
subdirectory.

The SwarmFaq has a directory of small working code examples, you can
check those out.

The comments in the Swarm for Windows part of the FAQ are still valid.
Seriously consider learning Emacs as the editor, Marcus has solved
several problems with users by having them run their programs inside the
Emacs shell, rather than the "swarm terminal" program.

Charles Staelin was/did a Java version of the Swarm tutorial, and it is
not quite finalized, but perhaps it will be available soon.

"Marcus G. Daniels" wrote:


> hi Mr. Daniels,
> 
> This is ravi, it is nice to hear from you back.
> I will explain you about my position right now, i have
> downloaded Swarm software from the net, swarm.org
> (from the Developmental kit for windows platform).
> 
> i am unable to understand where to start from and how
> should i proceed to do modelling part of swarm.
> 
> If you can guide me from the scratch of downloading
> and doing the programming part of swarm and moreover
> where do i need to start from, i.e., how to access the
> libraries . i want to compile and run some java
> programs and i want to understand the problem, so
> which is the basic program which i need to start from.
> 
> i am doing all these things on the MS-Dos prompt of
> windows platform.
> 
> Please do mail me in detail, i have never worked on
> swarm before and if you can explain to me in detail of
> how to get along with the software then i can start
> building java programs.
> 
> The things i want to know is :
> 
> 1) the platform on which i need to work
> 2) the programs which i need to look at so that i will
> get an idea to workon.
> 
> i will be very helpful if you get back to me in
> detail.
> 
> thanking you sir,
> ravi madipadaga
> 
> 
> 
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