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Chun, Sungjin

[Q, OT] Book for Smalltalk, like SICP for Scheme/Lisp

Hi,

During my reading of SICP :-), I thought that it would be
great if there is some equivalent book for Smalltalk. So, I
post my question here.

Any suggestion or recommendation?, any book/doc. are ok.

Thanks in advance.

Michael Haupt-3

Re: [Q, OT] Book for Smalltalk, like SICP for Scheme/Lisp

Hi,

On 8/15/07, "S.J.Chun" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> During my reading of SICP :-), I thought that it would be
> great if there is some equivalent book for Smalltalk. So, I
> post my question here.

there is a book by Gene Korienek et al., entitled "Squeak: A Quick
Trip to Object Land" (ISBN 0201731142). It is written in dialogue
style (a bit like the "The Little Schemer" book by Friedman/Felleisen)
and actually is an introduction to OOP, where Squeak is used as the
language/environment of choice. Given that the book was published in
2002, the version of Squeak used therein is not very recent (3.0, I
think).

There are others, of course, but this one seems to be close to SICP
when it comes to comparing the approaches. It does not go as far as
SICP, though, in terms of the complexity of the examples.

Best,

Michael

Gary Fisher-3

Re: [Q, OT] Book for Smalltalk, like SICP for Scheme/Lisp

In reply to this post by Chun, Sungjin

Roughly equivalent in spirit to MIT's generosity in making SICP widely and freely available, a number of authors and publishers have permitted our own Stephane Ducasse to assemble a remarkable online free library of Smalltalk books [http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/FreeBooks.html] which would be worth a good look.

Gary

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Chun, Sungjin

Re: Re: [Q, OT] Book for Smalltalk, like SICP for Scheme/Lisp

In reply to this post by Chun, Sungjin

I already read the book you mentioned. But I do want more profound one,
which should cover the areas which is civered in SICP; from basic programming
elements to the machine/system(virtual one) construction, which is the reason
I think SICP is the one of the best book for educating programmer(like TAOCP).

Thank you.

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Haupt <[hidden email]>
To: "\"S.J.Chun\"" <[hidden email]>, The general-purpose Squeak developers list <[hidden email]>
Sent: 07-08-15 18:24:45
Subject: Re: Re: [Q, OT] Book for Smalltalk, like SICP for Scheme/Lisp

Hi,

On 8/15/07, "S.J.Chun" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> During my reading of SICP :-), I thought that it would be
> great if there is some equivalent book for Smalltalk. So, I
> post my question here.

there is a book by Gene Korienek et al., entitled "Squeak: A Quick
Trip to Object Land" (ISBN 0201731142). It is written in dialogue
style (a bit like the "The Little Schemer" book by Friedman/Felleisen)
and actually is an introduction to OOP, where Squeak is used as the
language/environment of choice. Given that the book was published in
2002, the version of Squeak used therein is not very recent (3.0, I
think).

There are others, of course, but this one seems to be close to SICP
when it comes to comparing the approaches. It does not go as far as
SICP, though, in terms of the complexity of the examples.

Best,

Michael

David Mitchell-10

Re: Re: [Q, OT] Book for Smalltalk, like SICP for Scheme/Lisp

The Blue Book (Smalltalk - 80, The Language and its Implementation) is
probably closest.

On 8/15/07, "S.J.Chun" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I already read the book you mentioned. But I do want more profound one,
> which should cover the areas which is civered in SICP; from basic programming
> elements to the machine/system(virtual one) construction, which is the reason
> I think SICP is the one of the best book for educating programmer(like TAOCP).
>
> Thank you.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Haupt <[hidden email]>
> To: "\"S.J.Chun\"" <[hidden email]>, The general-purpose Squeak developers list <[hidden email]>
> Sent: 07-08-15 18:24:45
> Subject: Re: Re: [Q, OT] Book for Smalltalk, like SICP for Scheme/Lisp
>
> Hi,
>
> On 8/15/07, "S.J.Chun" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > During my reading of SICP :-), I thought that it would be
> > great if there is some equivalent book for Smalltalk. So, I
> > post my question here.
>
> there is a book by Gene Korienek et al., entitled "Squeak: A Quick
> Trip to Object Land" (ISBN 0201731142). It is written in dialogue
> style (a bit like the "The Little Schemer" book by Friedman/Felleisen)
> and actually is an introduction to OOP, where Squeak is used as the
> language/environment of choice. Given that the book was published in
> 2002, the version of Squeak used therein is not very recent (3.0, I
> think).
>
> There are others, of course, but this one seems to be close to SICP
> when it comes to comparing the approaches. It does not go as far as
> SICP, though, in terms of the complexity of the examples.
>
> Best,
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
>