"Smalltalk for C programmers"
Jesse Schell
Jesse.Schell at disney.com
Fri Feb 11 01:27:05 UTC 2000
The best book for learning Smalltalk, IMHO.
Eugene Wallingford writes:
>
> >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
>
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