[squeak-dev] Re: Vote for the best Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...

Andreas Wacknitz a.wacknitz at gmx.de
Tue Sep 7 18:54:17 UTC 2010


Am 07.09.2010 um 15:16 schrieb Jecel Assumpcao Jr.:

> Bert Freudenberg wrote on Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:50:22 +0200
>> I for one am happy that there were enough books written about Smalltalk
>> that we can have a competition.
>> 
>> Thank you for organizing the contest, ESUG. 
> 
> I would also like to thank both ESUG for holding the contest and the
> authors for their very valuable contribution to the community. While
> Andreas does have a point about conflict of interest, it is unavoidable
> due to the small size of our community (we had quite a bit of conflict
> over this on squeak-dev last year, for example). It is like the small
> town where the same guy is the sheriff, the auto repairman, the judge,
> the fireman and so on.
> 
> About the list itself, I did a quick search on Amazon for "smalltalk"
> and found these others:
> 
> Discovering Smalltalk (The Benjamin/Cummings Series in Object-Oriented
> Software Engineering)
> by Wilf Lalonde
> (Paperback - Jan 17, 2008) - it seems to use Digitalk Smalltalk V, so
> this is probably a new edition of an old book
> 
> Advances in Smalltalk: 14th International Smaltalk Conference, ISC 2006,
> Prague, Czech Republic, September 4-8, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
> (Lecture ... / Programming and Software Engineering)
> by Wolfgang De Meuter
> (Paperback - May 18, 2007)
> 
> Grundkurs Smalltalk - Objektorientierung von Anfang an
> by Johannes Brauer
> (Perfect Paperback - 2008) - in German
> 
> Einsamkeit überwinden mit der TALISUND Strategie. Neue Menschen kennen
> lernen - ohne Smalltalk.
> by einsamkeit-ueberwinden.org
> (Paperback - Mar 30, 2010) - in German
> 
Remove this from your list. It's about small talk and not about Smalltalk ;-)

Regards,
Andreas






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