>
>
> As a precursor to the European Smalltalk User Group conference
> (
http://tinyurl.com/42z7752) which is taking place in the Forum next week,
> Stephane Ducasse is going to give a one-day introduction to Smalltalk this
> coming Saturday. Knowing the lecturer I expect this to be a lot of fun; in
> particular, if you've always wanted to know about Smalltalk but been afraid
> to ask, come along. All welcome; no need to register, just turn up.
>
> Date: Saturday 20th August
> Time: 10.30 - 17.00 (may finish earlier; there will be a break for lunch at
> some point; quiet coming and going is allowed)
> Place: Informatics Forum, G03
>
> Discovering Smalltalk
>
> Smalltalk is a pure and elegant object language. This lecture will cover
> the fundamental aspects of Smalltalk: syntax, semantics, and key aspects of
> the system. Doing so we will also revise the real semantics of self/super.
> We will show the power of polymorphism in action by simply learning from
> the system. Finally we will go into more design aspect again based on the
> systems. As a bonus we will start the lecture with a 15 min presentation of
> Seaside, a powerful web framework for dynamic web application.
>
> This lecture may be followed by a lecture on more advanced object-oriented
> design: law of demeter, encapsulation, multiple interface of classes,
> composition vs. inheritance
>
> Bio: He is expert in object-oriented language design, dynamic languages,
> reflective programming, language semantics as well as reengineering,
> program analysis, visualizations, software metrics. Recently he worked on
> traits, composable method groups, and this work got some impact. Traits
> have been introduced AmbiantTalk, Pharo, Perl-6, PHP 5.4 and Squeak. They
> influenced Scala and Fortress SUN Microsystems. Stephane is one of the
> developer of Pharo (
http://www.pharo.project.org/) an open-source language
> inspired by Smalltalk. He is one of the core developer of Moose, an
> open-source reengineering environment (
http://moose.unibe.ch/). He is the
> president of the European Smalltalk User Group and organize a yearly
> international conference on Smalltalk. He wrote a couple of fun books to
> teach programming and other serious topics such as dynamic web development
> (
http://book.seaside.st).
>
> --
> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>
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