The first one is meant to be an introductory text.  The second one 
has a nice chapter by Noel Rappin introducing Squeak, but generally 
has more advanced material.  You can find all of the chapters of the 
second book at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook

Mark

>Hi, I was wondering, which book should a person new to
>Squeak Smalltalk buy?  Anyway, the following books
>appeared from an Amazon.com query:
>
>Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia
>Applications by Mark Guzdial
>
>Squeak : Open Personal Computing and Multimedia
>by Mark Guzdial et al
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>-Conrad
>
>--- Mark Guzdial <guzdial at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> > I came home on New Year's Eve to find my box of 'em,
> > and I'm getting
> > email from folk finding them in their local
> > bookstores.  Amazon says
> > that they're now shipping within 24 hours of new
> > orders -- but they
> > dropped Rik's wonderful review of the book!  BUMMER!
> >
> > Funny story:  Our campus Prentice-Hall sales rep is
> > forever sending
> > me books to consider for my course -- C++ books,
> > Java books, etc.
> > You'd think that s/he (it's changed over the last
> > year) would realize
> > what language I use since I'm writing a *SQUEAK*
> > book for them.
> > Finally, they got it right.  They sent my own book
> > to me for
> > examination :-)
> >
> > And the manuscript for the SqueakBook at
> > http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook goes to P-H
> > today...
> >
> > Happy New Year!
> > Mark
> >
> > >It should arrive on Tuesday.
> > >
> > >Boy, oh, boy!
> > >
> > >Happy new year to everyone.
> > >
> > >8-)
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >
> > **************************************************
> > >   Jeff Szuhay              A randomly-directed
> > >   www.szuhay.org           chaotical wetware
> > pattern
> > >   jeff at szuhay.org          recognizer/generator.
> > >
> > >
> > >   This year will go down in history. For the first
> > time,
> > >   a civilized nation has full gun registration.
> > Our streets
> > >   will be safer, our police more effective, and
> > the world
> > >   will follow our lead into the future."
> > >    -- Adolf Hitler, Chancellor and F¸hrer of
> > Germany, 1935
> >
> > --------------------------
> > Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing :
> > Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
> > Associate Professor - Learning Sciences &
> > Technologies.
> > Collaborative Software Lab -
> > http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/
> > (404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 :
> > guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
> >
>http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html
> >
> > .
> > c.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html
> >
> > .
> >
>
>
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Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies.
Collaborative Software Lab - http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/
(404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html