"David" == David T Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com writes:
David> In addition to the Simon Lewis book that you mentioned, I have found David> "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns" by Kent Beck to be something you David> will want to read sooner rather than later. It's really worthwhile David> and admirably brief (notwithstanding the title, there is none of the David> nonsense that has been published as "patterns" elsewhere).
I'll second, third, and fourth this. Heck, reading that book improved my *Perl* OO code. I even wrote an entire half-day Perl course based on the patterns in Beck's book.