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From: kthompso@netcom.com (Kevin Thompson)
Subject: Re: Smalltalk Developers Guide to VW
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In article <488gfa$ilr@ren.fp.co.nz>, Mike Maguire <maguirem@fp.co.nz> wrote:
>The Smalltalk Developers Guide to VisualWorks
>by Tim Howard
>ISBN 1-884842-11-9
>approx 630 pages
>
>I was about to order this book - advert in the October 1995 Smalltalk Report
>and I am curious if anyone esle has read it and could recommend it.
>
>We have the Art and Science of Smalltalk 
>by Simon Lewis 
>ISBN 0-13-37-1345-8
>approx 212 pages
>and I heartily resommend it to Visual Works developers.
>
>I am interested in your comments re The Smalltalk Developers Guide 
>to VisualWorks.  It is obviousy bigger, but does it cover more topics
>eg processes, signals, semaphores, dll and c connect etc.

Howard's book is the only one in my mind that could reasonably called an
*intermediate* VisualWorks book; it seems to assume much more knowledge of
basic Smalltalk, and goes further into depth on the VisualWorks framework
(what a widget is, ApplicationModel vs. SimpleDialog, AspectAdaptors, etc)
than either Lewis or Hopkins/Horan.  I think Lewis is an excellent
introductory book which we've used for some people coming from other
languages; I've only browsed Hopkins/Horan in a bookstore.  

Kevin
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