The VisualAge for Smalltalk Primer Book With CD-ROM (SIGS: Advances in Object Technology, Band 16)Liwu Li
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The Primer is just what is says; a book for those who want to learn how to build client applications in Smalltalk using I B M's Visual Age environment. While it assumes a working knowledge of the fundamentals of programming it assumes you know nothing about Smalltalk. The object nature of the language leads to an interesting book structure in that it doesn't really have a beginning. You could just read it, but the sensible approach is to install Visual Age Smalltalk on your P C (it runs under Windows 3. 1. 95. N T 3. 51, N T 4, O S/2 and Unix) and use the book as a resource while working through example projects. The book is based entirely around code examples. These are designed to introduce Smalltalk basics in a practical rather than theoretical context. Fun stuff happens fast in Smalltalk. While you get to build a Motif style G U I as an exercise there's also a lot of emphasis on database client applications, as you'd expect of anything from I B M. This is less fun but probably more relevant if you're planning to work commercially in Smalltalk. Overall, The Visual Age For Smalltalk Primer is excellent, taking you from novice to near expert using well documented working examples. Recommended. -< I> Steve Patient
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