Art and Science of Smalltalk, The

Art and Science of Smalltalk, The, 1/e

Simon Lewis, Hewlett Packard, Bristol, England
Hewlett-Packard Professional Books

Published May, 1995 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

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Summary

This highly readable and practical book provides an effective introduction to programming in Smalltalk, and explains the most efficient ways to think about and work with the system. The Art and Science of Smalltalk aims to demystify the transition from conventional programming to programming with Smalltalk. It includes a step-by-step guide, taking the reader through the basics, via object-oriented programming with Smalltalk language and its development environment, right up to designing, coding and debugging your own programs.

Features

a guided tour of the Smalltalk class library
chapters on many of the many basic tools, including the Smalltalk debugger
an introduction to Smalltalk's model-view-controller (MVC) mechanism
lots of analogies, diagrams and examples using VisualWorks 2.0

Table of Contents
I. THE SCIENCE OF SMALLTALK.

1. Some Advice on Getting Started.
2. An Introduction to Objects.
3. An Introduction to Smalltalk.
4. The Smalltalk Language.
5. The Smalltalk Development Environment.
6. The Smalltalk Class Library.
7. The Collection Classes.
8. The Dependency Mechanism.
9. The MVC Architecture.
10. Pluggability and Adaptors.

II. THE ART OF SMALLTALK.