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Could anybody cite a book on Smalltalk for a beginner ? I have old pointers. Annick _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc |
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"Smalltalk by Example" by Alec Sharp On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Annick Fron <[hidden email]> wrote: Hi _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc |
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Not a book, but I did do an intro series of screencasts using ProfStef with Pharo:
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Annick,
The books are still the same, even if your list is 10 years old ;-) I'd recommend The Art and Science of Smalltalk by Simon Lewis together with Smalltalk Objects and Esign by Chamond Liu. Joachim Annick Fron <[hidden email]> schrieb: >Hi > >Could anybody cite a book on Smalltalk for a beginner ? >I have old pointers. >Annick >_______________________________________________ >vwnc mailing list >[hidden email] >http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc > _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc |
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On Nov 14, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Annick Fron wrote:
All of the books are old so your pointers might still be valid. Many of the books are available for free at: Here are my recommendations: For new highschool age and above with little or no programming experience prerequisite: Smalltalk by Example -- Alec Sharp A Little Smalltalk -- Timmothy Budd Joy of Smalltalk -- Ivan Tomek (originally a Workspace Smalltalk walkthrough, released as a free book) For someone with some programming experience but new to Smalltalk: Smalltalk: An Introduction to Application Development using VisualWorks -- Hopkins and Horan (dated but still good book) Smalltalk With Style -- Klimas and Skublics (every Smalltalker reads this at some point -- great "style" guide) Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns -- Kent Beck (another must read 2nd book) Smalltalk, Objects and Design -- Chamond Liu (a good read for a college student trying to "get objects") On to Smalltalk -- Patrick Winston (thin, compares Smalltalk to C or Java, can't remember) For young budding programmers there is : Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots -- Stef Ducasse (good book but approach is opinionated, my kids liked it) Newer books: The Pharo/Squeak folks have done a nice job with "Pharo/Squeak by Example" which are also free on the above site. I don't consider these as introduction to programming books but they are nice resources for developers making the change to Pharo/Squeak. Hope that helps. David _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc |
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On 11/14/2013 9:42 AM, Frank Lynch
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Agreed. Many other good Smalltalk books available here: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
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Thanks to you all
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Hi James -- are your casts available in
text/pdf/etc format? Or maybe audio transcripts with the shots?
Just a bit harder to find the time for the screencasts, although a good format when time is
available.
Thank you,
Gary P
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No, they are video only. I try to keep each one under 5 minutes, and they usually hit around 2 minutes
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Indispensable : Smalltalk-80 - The Language and its implementation : (back to basics) 2013/11/15 Gary Peterson <[hidden email]>
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Dear Annick,
David Shaffer wrote: >Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns -- Kent Beck (another must read 2nd book) > I agree. If whoever you're advising has only time to read two books then, after the first one has explained how to write Smalltalk code, this is a great short readable book on how to write better Smalltalk. (And if they only have time to read one short book, after learning the syntax from a slide or a friend, then they could do worse than make it the one.) Yours faithfully Niall Ross _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc |
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My suggestion (it could be probably considered and extreme one) is: No books are actually needed! Smalltalk is a live and highly interactive system. And the best way to learn and understand it is to play with it. Just open VW or Pharo, run through interactive tutorial and then go on with any programming project you like, just read the code in the image as often as possible. And somewhere in the middle of the process, read Kent Beck's Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. The next logical step would be TDD.
Books recommended are great, but I would (and I actually did) read them after playing with Smalltalk for some time. -- Best regards, Dennis Schetinin 2013/11/18 Niall Ross <[hidden email]> Dear Annick, _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc |
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