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and selling books on ebay - I hate ebay - but it beats the 2nd prices at school re-sales :(
I_enigma (It wasn't me!) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:49:41 -0000
and selling books on ebay - I hate ebay - but it beats the 2nd prices at school re-sales :(
Reading children's books. Amazing.
mermerkerr (Mermer Kerr) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:49:37 -0000
Reading children's books. Amazing.
Just realized a large chunk of my bookshelf is bare. Tracking down books is turning out to be a hobby of mine lately.
AmyGVSL (Amy ) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:49:23 -0000
Just realized a large chunk of my bookshelf is bare. Tracking down books is turning out to be a hobby of mine lately.
@joeygiggles What's up is I'm debating whether to buy a movie or a book between two movies and two books #JGF
DavidKirlew (David Kirlew) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:49:09 -0000
@joeygiggles What's up is I'm debating whether to buy a movie or a book between two movies and two books #JGF
@anikainpink I'm Flickrized!!! BTW Señor Fuentes was good,dad met him&got books signed then asked him where the best place to eat in DF was!
lydiawesome (Lydia Chain) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:48:54 -0000
@anikainpink I'm Flickrized!!! BTW Señor Fuentes was good,dad met him&got books signed then asked him where the best place to eat in DF was!
@chanikin Hi we sell Chinese books for a reasonable price :) www.childbook.com
ChildBook (Ray Ritchey) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:48:54 -0000
@chanikin Hi we sell Chinese books for a reasonable price :) www.childbook.com

 

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A Little Smalltalk - By Timothy Budd; Addison-Wesley, 1987, ISBN 0201106981. Guide to line-oriented semi-subset of Smalltalk-80 coded in C, by author; good introduction to elementary object-oriented programming. [Amazon.com]
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A Taste of Smalltalk - By Ted Kaehler, Dave Patterson; W.W. Norton Co., 1986, ISBN 0393955052. Uses 'Towers of Hanoi' programming example in C, Pascal, Lisp, Smalltalk; then builds on it to teach some basics of OO programming with Smalltalk. [Amazon.com]
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age - Brief positive review of book. [Electronic Review of Computer Books]

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age - By Michael A. Hiltzik; HarperBusiness, 1999, ISBN 0887309895. By author of The Soul of a New Machine, accessible history of Xerox PARC in 1970s/80s. Purchase sources, chapter sample, author information. [publisher website]
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Discovering Smalltalk - By Wilf R. Lalonde; Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0805327207. Comprehensive introduction to language, detailed coverage of fundamental object-oriented programming concepts: objects, parts, methods, classes, inheritance. [Addison-Wesley]

Discovering Smalltalk - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Free Online Smalltalk Books - Mostly out of print, many are classics; chapters are PDF format. [online]

Inside Smalltalk, Volume 1 - By Wilf R. Lalonde, John R. Pugh; Prentice Hall, 1990, ISBN 0134684141. Introduces this object-oriented programming language, focusing on classes, subclassing, inheritance, message passing. [Amazon.com]
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Inside Smalltalk, Volume 2 - By Wilf R. Lalonde, John R. Pugh; Prentice Hall, 1991, ISBN 0134659643. Explores Smalltalk system as a potent and efficient prototyping and development environment. [Amazon.com]
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Jonathan Pletzke's Smalltalk Book List - 1995-1997, The Technical Expertise Corp. Format: author name (last, first), title, publisher, year, ISBN, cost, pages, media.

Object-Oriented Engineering: Building Engineering Systems Using Smalltalk-80 - By John R. Bourne; CRC Press, 1992, ISBN 025611210X. Introduces understanding and using object-oriented methodologies for engineering problem solving, focus on analysis and design. [Amazon.com]
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On to Smalltalk - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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On to Smalltalk - By Patrick Henry Winston; Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN 0201498278. Each easily understood section adds new abilities to a short, representative Smalltalk program. [Addison-Wesley]

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns - By Kent Beck; Prentice Hall, 1997, ISBN 013476904X. Real world style guide for better programming; gives set of patterns that organize informal experience successful Smalltalk programmers learned the hard way. [Prentice Hall]

Smalltalk Online - Torsten Bergmann's Online Books, each on one implementation: Dolphin Smalltalk, IBM Smalltalk, Object Studio, Pocket Smalltalk, Smalltalk Agents, Smalltalk Express, Smalltalk/MT, Smalltalk/Win95, Smalltalk/X, Squeak, VisualWave, VisualWorks.
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Smalltalk with Style - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Smalltalk with Style - By Suzanne Skublics, Edward J. Klimas, David A. Thomas; Prentice Hall, 1996, ISBN 0131655493. For OO programming courses; fills gap between software engineering principles and practice of programming in OOP languages. [Prentice Hall]

Smalltalk, Objects, and Design - By Chamond Liu; iUniverse.com, 2000, ISBN 1583484906. Programmer's guide integrates language with object-oriented design solutions; focus: practical alternatives, trade-offs. [Amazon.com]
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Smalltalk-80 - Addison-Wesley; 1989, ISBN 0201113716. Paperback. [Amazon.com]
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Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice - Edited by Glen Krasner; Addison-Wesley, 1983, ISBN 0201116693. Tells how Smalltalk was first invented, and then how it was introduced to the world, with chapters by key participants. [Amazon.com]
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Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment - By Adele Goldberg; Addison-Wesley, 1983, ISBN 0201113724. In depth explanation of the programming user interface. [Amazon.com]
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Smalltalk-80: The Language - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Smalltalk-80: The Language - By Adele Goldberg, David Robson; Addison-Wesley, 1989, ISBN 0201136880. Likely the most famous, influential Smalltalk book, and one of the first, by two of its original creators; considered a Smalltalk bible. [Addison-Wesley]

Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation - Part 4: The Implementation, Chapters 26-30; defines full reference implementation for original 16-bit Smalltalk-80 Virtual Machine needed to run image. Code is all Smalltalk, written for clarity, not speed; optimizations left to implementors. [Online]

Smalltalk: An Introduction to Application Development Using VisualWorks - By Trevor Hopkins, Bernard Horan; Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 0133183874. Full guide with what users must know to start writing applications. [Amazon.com]
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500 The Art and Science of Smalltalk - Review of book, very positive; book introduces programming in Smalltalk, explains optimal ways to think about and work with the system.

The Art and Science of Smalltalk - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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404 The Art and Science of Smalltalk - By Simon Lewis; Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 0133713458. Introduces programming in Smalltalk, covers technical background for programmers, managers; introduces some basic philosophy of language. Description with table of contents. [hp books]
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The Design and Evaluation of a High Performance Smalltalk System - By David M. Ungar; MIT Press, 1987, ISBN 026221010X. Dissertation that became a book; focus: dynamic typing can be fast on RISC CPUs, garbage collecting need not be time-consuming. [Amazon.com]
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500 The Design and Evaluation of a High Performance Smalltalk System - By David M. Ungar; dissertation sponsored by DARPA; read online or download PDF. [UC Berkeley SUNSITE, Online]

The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion - By Sherman R. Alpert, Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf; Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN 0201184621. Implements the 23 patterns in Smalltalk; rework of 1994 book that changed object-oriented software engineering, but used C++ code. [Addison-Wesley]

The Dolphin Smalltalk Companion: A Hands-on Guide to Building Complete Applications - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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404 The Dolphin Smalltalk Companion: A Hands-on Guide to Building Complete Applications - By Ted Bracht; Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0201737930, has CD-ROM. Introduction to OO, programming, Smalltalk, step-by-step covers creating full programs for Windows 32-bit. [Addison-Wesley]

The Smalltalk Developers Guide to VisualWorks - By Timothy Howard; Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 013442526X, has CD-ROM. Describes ParcPlace environment in terms of basic Smalltalk ideas, shows how to solve problems, develop applications. [Amazon.com]
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