Tervetuloa,

It has been out of print for a while, but Tom Wrensch and
Gene Koreniek wrote a book called something like,
"A quick trip to Objectland." It was very much like
Abbott's book, "Flatland". If memory serves, Gene is a
cognitive psychologist and the book focuses upon bringing
about a fundamental change in the way one thinks about
programming. It was a subtle book and an easy read.
Might be worth checking Powell's books to see if they
have out of print copies.

John (eli Jussi) Sarkela

> From: "Tapio Huuhka" <tapio.huuhka at dlc.fi>
> Reply-To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 05:46:02 +0200
> To: <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Re: "Smalltalk for C programmers"
> Resent-From: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Resent-Date: 11 Feb 2000 18:41:58 -0000
> 
> Winston's book is good. Even better for a newbie like me having
> problems with OO in general and Smalltalk in particular would be David
> N. Smith's great Smalltalk primer in disguise "Concepts of Object
> Oriented Programming". If interested, see
> http://www.dnsmith.com/dnsmith/ConceptsOfOOP.html
> 
> Tapio
> ----------
>> From: Eugene Wallingford <wallingf at cs.uni.edu>
>> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
>> Subject: Re: "Smalltalk for C programmers"
>> Date: 10. helmikuuta 2000 23.38
>> 
>> 
>>> So I think that a short book, possibly organized similarly to the
>>> original K&R C book, would be a wonderful thing. It should not
>>> talk down to the reader or try to convice how easy it is to learn
>>> Smalltalk, just tell her or him directly how to do things. It is
>>> really enfuriating to learn from a book that seems to suggest that
>>> any half-witted child could figure this stuff out in a day or two.
>>> Therefore, the tone should be direct and to the point, and should
>>> show how to do familiar things in the strange Smalltalk environment.
>> 
>> What do y'all think about Winston's On to Smalltalk?  It is
>> short and to the point, and it helps programmers build up an
>> OO application throughout the book.
>> 
>> ---- Eugene
>> 
>