On to SmallTalk

by Patrick Henry Winston

Book Overview

The Knowledge You Need Each section adds new capabilities to a short, yet representative Smalltalk program. One such program displays the calorie content of a food selected by a button click. As you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201498278
• ISBN13: 9780201498271
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The best of it's kind!

This is an excellent book. Writien and organized in a style that is uncommonly clear and concise for an book of it's type. Winston explores the basic features of Smalltalk while continually implementing them in a workable application throughout the book. This is an extremely effective instruction technique. I recommend this book not only to Comp Sci students, but to professionals who want to add Smalltalk to their skillset.

To the point

I love this guy's writing style. It is just matter of fact and to the point. He cuts all the crap and teaches the language only. Result, you have a lean ~280 page book easily 1/4 the size of many other programming books. The author breaks all the topics up into small chunks and they're placed in logical order. This makes it not only easier to learn the material, but makes for a great reference book. If you've forgotten how to do something you can turn to the appropriate chapter and get the info you need without wading through many pages and searching. Each chapter is short and specific. Smalltalk is a great language and this gives you a great overview of it all.

good place to start

A good "getting started" book for Smalltalk. Mostly deals with Smalltalk Express. Also has a few helpful sections on VisualWorks. Easy to read and has some good examples to get you going.

Terse and to the point

This book has a very unique style - not at all like most books.What this book accomplishes is providing all you need to get going with SmallTalk in as few pages as possible: Winston expects you to be an intelligent human being, so he doesn't fluff up his writing: he tersely walks you through the language & examples point-by-point.I loved the book, and came away knowing a lot about SmallTalk... no other language can compare to SmallTalk :)

Excellent no nonsense introduction to Smalltalk.

After poking around at the edges of Smalltalk over the years I decided to really devote some time to learning the language. I purchased the book, downloaded (for free) Smalltalk Express and opened to page one. For those readers familiar with Patrick Henry Winston from his Lisp and AI books it will come as no surprise to learn that he has done it again, this time with Smalltalk. There is no extraneous material here to get in the way. The reader is guided up through the language given just the right amount of information at each step, building on what came before. By books end your developing in the GUI builder and on your way. This book is not for the novice programmer and some familiarity with object oriented programming would be helpful. But for the experienced programmer looking to learn Smalltalk or looking to explore true object oriented concepts this book is recommended.