Russ,<br><br>I've played around with Squeak after work for the past year, and I've found the following to be great books:<br><br><font color="#000066" face="Verdana, Arial" size="3"><b>Squeak: Learning Programming with Robots
</b></font><br><i><font size="2">by Ducasse, Stephane<br></font></i><a href="http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=1590594916">http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=1590594916</a><br>I found this to be a great book for teaching OO to people who have never programmed before.
<br><br><br><font color="#000066" face="Verdana, Arial" size="3"><b>Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications, with CDROM</b></font><br><i><font size="2">by Gudzial, Mark</font></i><br><a href="http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0130280283">
http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0130280283</a><br><br><font color="#000066" face="Verdana, Arial" size="3"><b>Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia, with CDROM</b></font><br><i><font size="2">by Guzdial, Mark / Rose, Kim
<br><a href="http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0130280917">http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0130280917</a><br></font></i><br><font color="#000066" face="Verdana, Arial" size="3"><b>Smalltalk-80</b></font><br><i><font size="2">
by Goldberg, Adele<br><a href="http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0201136880">http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0201136880</a><br></font></i>I think this book is really awesome.<br><br>There's also quite a few good books by Kent Beck on Smalltalk.
<br><br>HTH<br>Bill Six<br>PS (I don't work for nerdbooks, I just buy all of my books there)<br><div><span class="gmail_quote"><br>On 8/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Russ</b> <<a href="mailto:russvr@gmail.com">
russvr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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.
<br><span class="sg">-Russ<span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br>
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