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Russ-23

Squeak / smalltalk beginners books

There is a dearth of smalltalk or squeak books at most of the bookstores my area - Seattle - this is down from minuscule in the past few years. I am a permanent beginner when it comes to programming or rather an amateur. I do sometimes get more instructional value out of a book than wading through lines of source code - though I understand that this is one of smalltalk's strongest points: its self documenting ability. And so at the bookstores (Borders, Elliott Bay...) I see scores of book on PHP, Ruby, Ruby on the Rails, Python, even Lua, as well as the usual suspects, java, javascript, Visual Basic and C/C++/C#. No smalltalk,no squeak. There used to at least be token representation. So I ask, where are the Squeak for Dummies, or some animal covered smalltalk books published by O'Reilly. This is really to the long-term detriment to the vitality of the language.
-Russ

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Bill Six-2

Re: Squeak / smalltalk beginners books

Russ,

I've played around with Squeak after work for the past year, and I've found the following to be great books:

Squeak: Learning Programming with Robots
by Ducasse, Stephane
http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=1590594916
I found this to be a great book for teaching OO to people who have never programmed before.

Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications, with CDROM
by Gudzial, Mark
http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0130280283

Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia, with CDROM
by Guzdial, Mark / Rose, Kim
http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0130280917

Smalltalk-80
by Goldberg, Adele
http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0201136880
I think this book is really awesome.

There's also quite a few good books by Kent Beck on Smalltalk.

HTH
Bill Six
PS (I don't work for nerdbooks, I just buy all of my books there)

On 8/15/07, Russ <[hidden email]> wrote:

There is a dearth of smalltalk or squeak books at most of the bookstores my area - Seattle - this is down from minuscule in the past few years. I am a permanent beginner when it comes to programming or rather an amateur. I do sometimes get more instructional value out of a book than wading through lines of source code - though I understand that this is one of smalltalk's strongest points: its self documenting ability. And so at the bookstores (Borders, Elliott Bay...) I see scores of book on PHP, Ruby, Ruby on the Rails, Python, even Lua, as well as the usual suspects, java, javascript, Visual Basic and C/C++/C#. No smalltalk,no squeak. There used to at least be token representation. So I ask, where are the Squeak for Dummies, or some animal covered smalltalk books published by O'Reilly. This is really to the long-term detriment to the vitality of the language.
-Russ

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Göran Krampe

Re: Squeak / smalltalk beginners books

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Hi!

Don't miss all the free ones available here:

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html

As listed here btw:

http://www.squeak.org/Documentation

regards, Göran

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Enno Schwass

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Hi

As a beginner I recommend: Squeak Learn Programming with Robots
(Technology in Action)
If you never did programming before this is a good choice. The
difficulty level of the practices
reaches from absolutly novice to advanced. But you dont see that much
from the Squeak environment

I like the style of Gene Korienek, Tom Wrensch & Doug Dechow, Squeak:
A Quick Trip to ObjectLand.

Further on, has someone mentioned Squeak by example?
Google for sbe.pdf

If you are familiar with the syntax of the language, look for Kent
Becks Smalltalk best pratice patterns. Cool stuff.

At the moment I read Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion (more expert
level)
This takes a lot time, but its worth. I just need more practice.

Bye

Enno Schwass
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Brad Fuller-2

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On Thu August 16 2007 7:15 am, Enno Schwass wrote:
> sbe.pdf
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/%7Eblack/OOP/papers/SBE.pdf
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