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Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns 18 reviews
Kent Beck
Prentice Hall PTR, 1996
Milestone for Your Programming Life
SBPP has changed me. Kent Beck has changed me. SBPP shed a new light on my previous knowledge of "patterns" in computer programming. I was deep in the DP tar pit. SBPP saved me. SBPP changed almost all my thoughts on programming. It has changed what I value, and how I pursue it. Kent Beck says that he is not a great programmer but just a pretty good programmer with great habits. Build great ...
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Smalltalk and Object Orientation: An Introduction1 review
John Hunt
Springer-Verlag Telos, 1997
THE one 4 smalltalk
Too bad I discovered this book only a few days before the final exams. Nevertheless it cleared up a lot of open questions. The book gives a good overview over the language itself, it gives a lot of examples and was perfect for our course as we used VisualWorks. Hunt also eases the way into object-oriented programming for those familiar with modular languages such as Ada or procedural ones as ...
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Smalltalk by Example: The Developer's Guide4 reviews
Alec Sharp
Mcgraw-Hill (Tx), 1997
Excellent
This is the one Smalltalk book that I carry with my laptop. If there's a Smalltalk feature that I haven't dealt with in some time then I'll take a peek at it here before I do anything else. It's great for Smalltalkers who are just about to ascend the steep portion of the language's learning curve - this book will drag you right up to the top!
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Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment (Addison-Wesley series in computer science)1 review
Adele Goldberg
Addison-Wesley, 1983
Just an amazing book
Of course all 3 ST published books are classics and all have 5 star ratings from me, this one in particular is GREAT for a newbie getting started with an ST-80 based system like Squeak, at least from a historical perspective. The book covers as its title implies the UI, so don't expect a language lesson here, get this book if you can find it and hold onto it, a huge piece of history and well ...
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A Little Smalltalk1 review
Timothy Budd
Addison-Wesley, 1987
This belongs on every programmer's bookshelf
This is a wonderfull little book that not only introduces the reader to object-oriented programming, but also describes the implementaion of a SmallTalk-like language. The book does not cover the more advanced topics of OO programming, but is an excelent tutorial and introduction to OO concepts. The section that covers the implementation of the language provides hard to find insights to how OO ...
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The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion (Software Patterns Series)11 reviews
Sherman Alpert, Kyle Brown, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1998
Easier to understand than the original GoF
This book gives you a better understanding of the patterns than in its original version (the GoF one). I am not a SmallTalk programmer but a 9 years C++ one. At work I had to use the GoF book and never liked reading it. In contrast to this, the SmallTalk companion is easy to read and you can understand the patterns within the first few lines of their description. Take the Bridge pattern and ...
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Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots (Technology in Action)5 reviews
Stéphane Ducasse
Apress, 2005
Excellent intro to the nature of programming
I whole-heartedly recommend this book for introducing the novice to the nature of computing. I am giving a copy to my 14 year old grandson to introduce him to the fascinating world of programming. He lives 500 km away from me, so he will largely be on his own. I do not expect this to be a problem because the book is perfect for self study.
I want my grandson to learn the essence of computing ...
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Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice (Addison-Wesley series in computer science)1 review
Addison-Wesley, 1983
The thrilling story of how Smalltalk came to be.
This book describes the process by which Smalltalk was introduced to people outside Xerox PARC, where it was developed. This book first describes the incredibly exciting history of how Smalltalk was built from scratch. It then goes on to show the way in which Smalltalk was made public. At first, this was an engineering process. Large companies were contacted and offered to participate by ...
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Art and Science of Smalltalk, The3 reviews
Simon Lewis
Prentice Hall, 1995
All the complexities of Smalltalk amazingly simplified!
Simon Lewis's book "The Art and Science of Smalltalk" has to be one of the best books on Smalltalk programming I have ever read. After spending months reading many other books on the subject and still not getting a clear, concise description of some important Smalltalk constructs, I could not believe how incredibly readable this book was. Lewis has managed to explain in a few pages what took ...
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The Smalltalk Developer's Guide to VisualWorks With diskette (SIGS: Advances in Object Technology)1 review
Tim Howard
SIGS, 1995
A must for serious UI programmers
I like this book especially, because it explains in detail all this UIBuilder and Spec stuff. If you want to understand how to build powerful user interfaces, this book is must. It really gives you insight into the mechanisms of the VisualWorks UI building. It was rather easy for me, to add own widget specs into the framework after reading it.
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Object-Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods: An Introduction with Java & Smalltalk (The Morgan ... 6 reviews
Didier H. Besset
Morgan Kaufmann, 2000
Excellent book
The author is clearly very familiar with the theory and practice of numerical computations in OO languages. For me, the main contributions of the book are an expert formulation of some of the basic numerical techniques and concepts in OO terms (a subject rarely approached in the numerous existing books on OO technology), and examples that can be followed to implement other NM techniques and ...
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Smalltalk With Style7 reviews
Suzanne Skublics, Edward J. Klimas, ...
Prentice Hall, 2002
great for improving your smalltalk programming style
This is a great book, it really is. The only potential for disappointment is if you think this book will teach you smalltalk -- it will not. This book is about good programming convensions in smalltalk -- it's about style and consistency and clarity. All this may sound too trivial to merit a book, but consider the following: You will not find many people that program in smalltalk and you will ...
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Discovering Smalltalk (The Benjamin/Cummings Series in Object-Oriented Software Engineering) 3 reviews
Wilf Lalonde
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1994
Excellent!
The book is exceptionally well written and is ideal for Smalltalk beginners. It might also be suited for Smalltalk literates who want to see how CRC design and Smalltalk fit together (Chapter 8). The book takes you step by step through problems and takes you to a real discovery because it is honest enough to admit that first attempts turn out to be insufficient in later stages. It, therefore, ...
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Dolphin Smalltalk Companion (With CD-ROM)3 reviews
Ted Bracht
Pearson Education, 2001
Excellent Introduction to Objects, Dolphin and Smalltalk
As a long time Smalltalker, I enjoy reading introductions to Smalltalk and Smalltalk programming environments to learn new techniques and approaches. What I found in Ted's book was an excellent introduction to objects, programming, and Smalltalk, as well as how to implement these ideas in the Dolphin Smalltalk environment. Dolphin is a relatively new Smalltalk environment for me, so I learned ...
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On to Smalltalk8 reviews
Patrick Henry Winston
Addison Wesley, 1997
The best of it's kind!
This is an excellent book. Writien and organized in a style that is uncommonly clear and concise for an book of it's type. Winston explores the basic features of Smalltalk while continually implementing them in a workable application throughout the book. This is an extremely effective instruction technique. I recommend this book not only to Comp Sci students, but to professionals who want to add ...
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SmallTalk, Objects, and Design16 reviews
Chamond Liu
Manning Publications, 1996
Like the title, this book is pure distilled information
"Smalltalk, Objects, and Design" is such a simple and unexciting title, and yet that's what this book is, in its entirety. This book will teach you about Smalltalk, it will teach you about objects (using Smalltalk as the medium, but you will learn much about Object Oriented programming that is applicable in any language), and it will teach you about good design principles.
It is written in ...
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Smalltalk 80: The Language (Addison-Wesley Series in Computer Science)3 reviews
Adele Goldberg, David Robson
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1989
One of the best book
"Smalltalk/80 - The Languaje" is not only a clasical book, it's a very modern book. Most of the content is incredible actual and very funny to read. You can't say "I know Smalltalk" if you don't read it.
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Rapid Software Development with Smalltalk (SIGS: Advances in Object Technology)1 review
Mark Lorenz
Cambridge University Press, 1995
simple and fast way to be productive
Having read the UML books, full of special notations and characters to cover all the possible modeling combinations, it is refreshing to find in this smallish book a simple and yet productive right-to-the-matter guidance to start analyzing a business process to model in a software application.
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Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation1 review
Adele Goldberg, David Robson
Addison-Wesley, 1983
If there was ever a book that needed to be brought back into print...
If someone out there from Addison-Wesley is listening, hopefully they'll hear this plea to bring "Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation" back into print. There is simply no better resource to completely cover this beautiful, unique system. Smalltalk is an extremely important language for both OOP and otherwise; there are volumes of concepts here that are remarkably relevant to this ...
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IBM Smalltalk: The Language (The Benjamin/Cummings Series in Object-Oriented Software Engineering)2 reviews
David N. Smith
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995
A good book for people who don't already know Smalltalk
This was my first experience with the Smalltalk language. It was recommended to me by someone who already programs with Smalltalk. I found that this book was very good the second time through. After reading this book the first time, a lot of the concepts seemed a little fuzzy. After reading it the second time, I then had a better grasp on the language and was able to program most of the ...
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