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From: appleton@chiefs.northbrook.aieg.mot.com (Brad Appleton)
Subject: Re: NEWBIE - Smalltalk Resources
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 21:18:33 GMT
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In article <32533D50.3331@gold.interlog.com>,
MARK GILLANDERS <markg@gold.interlog.com> writes:

> Discovering Smalltalk by Wilf Lalonde.

I read the above book. I would recommend it *only* *if* you are very
much a newcomer to programming and/or object-orientation. If you are
an experienced programmer with knowledge of basic O-O concepts and at
least one other O-O language then "Discovering Smalltalk" is *not* the
book for you.

For experienced programmers who possess at least some familiarity
with OOP, an excellent (and more comprehensive IMHO) introduction to
Smalltalk, OOP, and Visual Works can be found in the following book:

            The Art and Science of Smalltalk:
              an introduction to OOP using VisualWorks
            by Simon Lewis
            Hewlitt-Packard Professional Books
            Prentice-Hall, 1995, ISBN: 0-13-371345-8
            225 pages, Softcover, List Price: $29

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