Thanks John (Ivan),

  You are helpful and kind. This weekend I stumbled
across Mark Guzdial's book and buy it.

Regards,

Vasili
--- John Hinsley <jhinsley at telinco.co.uk> wrote:
> Galchin Vasili wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >    I bought Winston's book on Smalltalk and I am
> > working my way through it and using Squeak as
> > a way to program the examples in Winston's book.
> > Is there a better book? (e.g. one problem with
> > Winston's book is the Smalltalk programming
> > environment he describes is somewhat different
> > than Squeak). I await suggestions!
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Vasili N Galchin
> 
> Hi Vasili. Here's a list of URLs and books as
> promised. You won't need
> them all!
> 
> I'd suggest you take a look at the free stuff, then
> try and find
> yourself a bookshop with comfortable seats.
> 
> Some book suggestions that Squeakers made recently:
> 
> (culled from the thread "Learning Smalltalk" in this
> list, so some will
> be more
> Squeak oriented than others)
> 
> "On to Smalltalk" by Patrick Henry Winston
> "Squeak - Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia
> Applications" by Mark Guzdial
> "Smalltalk in Brief - Introduction to
> Object-Oriented Software Development" by Kenneth
> Lambert/Martin Osborne
> Kent Beck's "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns"
> 'Smalltalk by Example' by Alex Sharp
> 'The Art and Science of Smalltalk' by Simon Lewis
> (out of print?)
> 
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/gst-manual (the
> Gnu Smalltalk Manual
> -- I
> think you get this if you download the tarball).
> Take a peek at the
> index at
> http://www.gnu.org
> 
> http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/VisualWorks/Joy+of+Smalltalk
> (Ivan Tomek's free
> book 
> -- it's 700+pages!)
> 
>
http://kaka.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~wolfgang/cosc205/STtutorial/index.html
> (a nice free tutorial)
> 
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> John
> > 
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