you have also free books on my web page :)
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/FreeBooks.html
and really excellent ones.

Stef

On 24 nov. 04, at 19:04, Brian Tabone wrote:

> Stefan,
>
>  If you are working with Croquet, its probably the best route to sit
> down and learn Smalltalk. It's a very easy language to learn in my
> opinion. I think too that you will find that leanring Smalltalk will
> make you a better object oriented programmer in all the languages you
> know. I feel that way about myself having come from Java/C++/Obj C.
> The purple book is a great place to start. Smalltalk 80 : The Language
> by Adele Goldberg, David Robson; June 1989; Addison-Wesley Pub Co;
> ISBN: 0201136880.
>
> It can usually be found on Amazon for not too much money. Cincom also
> has a great series of tutorials that are applicable to Squeak as well.
> There are definite differences between Visual works and Squeak, but
> the tutorials for Cincom's Visual works are generic enough and a great
> way to learn Smalltalk. See www.cincom.com for more info.
>
> Hope that helps,
> -Brian Tabone
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:09:13 +0100, Stefan Elwesthål
> <elwesthal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> This project really is awesome, I've just started to play with it
>> following the splendido tutorials (all hail Americo's terrific work -
>> I'm on chapter 7 and can't get enough of it :)
>>
>> My question is simple. Smalltalk.. or "Squeak". This, i'm not familiar
>> with at all, but I suppose I have to learn it to get any work done? I
>> read somewhere something about bindings to Python and Java (which I'm
>> a lot more familiar with) but what about that? Will there be any, and
>> will I need Squeak in the bottom anyway?
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Stefan
>> Sweden
>>
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