Edward P Luwish <eluwish at uswest.com> wrote:
> My wife is eager to learn computer programming, but has no background
> whatsoever.  She is fascinated with Smalltalk, and I would like to help
> teach her programming via Squeak rather than the typical BASIC or C
> which have "Dummies" books galore.
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After programming for years this might not be the best answer, but, I think that On to Smalltalk by Patrick Henry Winston is pretty good.  It's small short segments.

Still, the world probalby could use more smalltalk books, so, feel free to write one!

cheers

bruce