Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!linus!sdl From: sdl@linus.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: Books on Smalltalk? Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 90 22:32:03 GMT References: <#7'$XG_@rpi.edu> <7030003@hpcupt1.HP.COM> Sender: usenet@linus.mitre.org Organization: The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA Lines: 35 In-reply-to: dclaar@hpcupt1.HP.COM's message of 25 Jun 90 18:10:46 GMT In article <7030003@hpcupt1.HP.COM> dclaar@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Doug Claar) writes: > >> I highly recommend: Pinson and Wiener "An Introduction to Object Oriented > >> Programming and Smalltalk", Addison-Wesley 1988. Omar Foda. > > > >Obviously, this is a rather subjective area. Personally, I found the > >Pinson and Wiener book to be very confusing. The blue or purple book > > Obviously. But I agree with the last opinion. (And our course instructor > apologized for picking it as the class text!) For me, anyway, it was the > literature equivalent of eating sawdust--very dry. > Unfortunately, I don't have a good suggestion to replace it... I recommend: "Inside Smalltalk," by W. LaLonde and J. Pugh; Prentice Hall, 1990. Volume I has just become available (volume II is due out next year). Volume I contains numerous nontrivial examples which really show how the various classes of Smalltalk can "play together" effectively. -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" -- J. Napier (a.k.a. "The Joker")