Inside Smalltalk

A two-volume guide to object-oriented programming that presents the Smalltalk system as a powerful and efficient prototyping and development environment. Volume one introduces the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and Smalltalk, describes the Smalltalk programming environment and covers the language's basic and graphical classes. It features extensive treatment of graphical and user interface classes, details individual classes, including relationships between related classes and design rationales. The book has been written to be used in parallel with the Smalltalk system....

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is recognized as one of the most powerful programming techniques to come along in many years. Its power lies in the ability it gives the designer to manage the complex, rapidly changing applications that have become the watchword of modern software. Smalltalk is the most extensively used OOP environment. Now Practical Smalltalk helps you to focus on those aspects of the language that you need to know to be a successful programmer. You'll learn all about the important classes to master, the essential theories to grasp, and then put these ideas to work in constructing everything from a simple counter object all the way through a data graphing application and the core of a functional outliner. The book culmi- nates with...

This practical text provides an introduction to programming in Smalltalk, and explains the most efficient ways to think about and work with the system. Split into two parts, the first part covers the important technical background for programmers and managers, while the second part introduces some of the basic philosophy of Smalltalk. This text aims to demystify the transition from conventional programming to programming with Smalltalk. It includes a step-by-step guide, taking the reader through the basics, via object-oriented programming with the Smalltalk language and its development environment, right up to designing, coding and debugging programs....