[Newbies] I've never written a line of code, but want to be a programmer!

[Ralph Johnson]

The book "Joy of Smalltalk" by Ivan Tomek was written to teach
programming in Smalltalk.  You can find it at
http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/comp/tomek/jos.htm

It is for VisualWorks, so a lot of things will be different, but most
of it will be the same.  You should give it a try and let us see how
well it works.

You could get a free version of VisualWorks, but the book was written
10 years ago so VisualWorks has changed since then, too.

-Ralph