"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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