I'll toss in two other thoughts here:

1) After going through Mark Guzdial's white book, get his blue book (the
one he edited along with Kim Rose), and go through the Morphic tutorial,
with Squeak up and running trying stuff out.

2) Buy, borrow, or steal Kent Beck's "Guide to Better Smalltalk" - it was
only after reading this that I thought I could truly grow to like the
language, since it gave me a real sense of how to use Smalltalk in a nitty
gritty down-in-the-details kind of way.

- Aaron

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