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Google Code-in 2014 FOSSASIA

hello world! learn and describe how to create a simple webpage with zinc on pharo smalltalk (task W1Z)

completed by: dzdaniel84

mentors: eMBee

zinc is a http server in smalltalk.

download pharo from and follow the instructions in this tutorial:
when you completed the tutorial, explore how to serve files other than images, eg, html, js and css files. try to upload all files from and serve them via zinc.

write a weblog post about your experience and upload the resulting work.

(in pharo "select save as...", then save as "FOSSASIA" and upload the files FOSSASIA.image and FOSSASIA.changes)

your code from this task and your weblog post should be published under the following licenses: CC-BY-SA, GNU FDL, GNU GPL v2 or later.

if you complete this task, there will be a followup task available to continue the tutorial and add some additional features.

other resources:


During the process of working on this task and/or when you finish it, please tweet about it on Twitter, Weibo or any other service mentioning @fossasia, @beijinglug and using the hashtag #FOSSASIA and #beijinglug. Also don't forget to follow FOSSASIA on

Also please provide links and info about the task on a blog or website, if possible.

Please post your work on the FOSSASIA Facebook, Google+ or any other social network.

Thank you!