Some years ago, I started to be fed up to see all the books I like to be out of print, so I started to contact authors and collected their old books. I would like to thanks them all and their publishers as well. If you
know an author that is willing to give to the community a book, please give him my email.
You can also support me.
Most recent Pharo books
You can find a lot more recent and free books (Spec, Pharo by Example Updated, Pharo with Style, Learning OOD with TDD, and many more) at http://books.pharo.org.
Most of the new books around Pharo are hosted at http://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates and each project has an automatic build with the latest PDF version.
Some recent books
If you have more books and you want to get them archived and listed here please contact me.
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Dynamic Web Development with Seaside This book is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. You can buy a softcover copy from Lulu. Check https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/DynamicWebDevelopmentWithSeaside/ |
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Pharo by Example (original version and translation) Pay attention there is also Pharo by Example Updated (for Pharo 90). |
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Computer Programming using GNU Smalltalk |
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Squeak by Example |
Old nice books on Smalltalk
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Smalltalk-80, Bits of History, Words of Advice This book is for collectors. Thanks Glenn. |
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Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation |
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Smalltalk-80, The Interactive Programming Environment This book is for collectors. Thanks Adele. |
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Inside Smalltalk (Volume One) |
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Inside Smalltalk (Volume Two) |
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Smalltalk by Example: the Developer's Guide This book covers all kinds of issues basic level, design, testing... I liked it a lot. The code and the book as a single file containing everything, are available. Thank again |
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Smalltalk With Style by Edward Klimas, Suzanne Skublics, and David A. Thomas. |
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A Little Smalltalk Many thanks to Tim Budd and his publisher. |
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The Art and Science of Smalltalk Many thanks to the original publishers of this book at Prentice-Hall, the responsible of the HP series, and Simon Lewis. |
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Practical Smalltalk: Using Smalltalk/V by Dan Shafer and By Dean A. Ritz, Springer Verlag; (July 1991). Many thanks to the original publishers of this book Springer Verlag, and Dan. Thanks. |
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Smalltalk An Introduction to Application Development using VisualWorks Many thanks to the original publishers of this book, Pearson Education, for permission to distribute this work, and of course the authors! |
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Smalltalk and Object Orientation: an Introduction This book provides a good survey of Smalltalk. Information is now obsolete |
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The Taste of Smalltalk Ted Kaehler and Dave Patterson, W W Norton Co.; ISBN: 0393955052; (May 1986). This book is for collectors. The quotes are really excellent. |
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The Joy Of Smalltalk Ivan wrote this book and he gave it to the community. It contains a lot of useful material. |
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Drafts of books
Here are a couple of book drafts.
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Smalltalk design pattern companion book drafts The chapters listed here are not in their final form but more in draft form. Buy the book it is really excellent. |
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DRAFTS of Squeak, Open Personal Computing and Multimedia |
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DRAFS of Squeak: Open Personal Computing for Multimedia |
Non english books
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(In German) Syntaxbasierte Programmierwerkzeuge This book presents compilation techniques in german. |
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(In German) Smalltalk |
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(In Swedish) Objektorienterad programmering i Smalltalk |
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(In Spanish) Programando con Smalltalk Thanks Diego. This book is distributed under the Creative Commons license. |
Old Articles
I added some articles because they illustrate the philosophy behind Smalltalk.
- The article from the Conference History of Programming Languages
- Design principles behind Smalltalk
- Byte magazine archive
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