Re: Squeak / smalltalk beginners books

Russ,

I've played around with Squeak after work for the past year, and I've found the following to be great books:

Squeak: Learning Programming with Robots
by Ducasse, Stephane
http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=1590594916
I found this to be a great book for teaching OO to people who have never programmed before.


Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications, with CDROM
by Gudzial, Mark
http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0130280283

Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia, with CDROM
by Guzdial, Mark / Rose, Kim
http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0130280917

Smalltalk-80
by Goldberg, Adele
http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0201136880
I think this book is really awesome.

There's also quite a few good books by Kent Beck on Smalltalk.

HTH
Bill Six
PS (I don't work for nerdbooks, I just buy all of my books there)

On 8/15/07, Russ < russvr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There is a dearth of smalltalk or squeak books at most of the bookstores  my area - Seattle - this is down from minuscule in the past few years. I am a permanent beginner when it comes to programming or rather an amateur. I do sometimes get more instructional value out of a book than wading through lines of source code - though I understand that this is one of smalltalk's strongest points: its self documenting ability. And so at the bookstores (Borders, Elliott Bay...) I see scores of book on PHP, Ruby, Ruby on the Rails, Python,  even Lua, as well as the usual suspects, java, _javascript_, Visual Basic and C/C++/C#. No smalltalk,no squeak. There used to at least be token representation. So I ask, where are the Squeak for Dummies, or some  animal covered smalltalk books published by O'Reilly. This is really to the long-term detriment to the vitality of the language.
-Russ

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