On to Smalltalk
by Patrick Henry Winston · first published 1998
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The pdf file linked is the wrong book, it points to: "Effects of temperature on the tensile strength and elastic modulus of composite material. / Hae Ryong Bae 1985" and not "on to Smalltalk" so please fix this. Only the DAISY link is valid, but you have to be visually impaired to find it useful.
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…Klimas, Suzanne Skublics and David A Thomas. This is a great book for beginners in any OO language: 'Smalltalk, Objects, and Design', by Chamond Liu Also surprisingly useful (terse, but well structured): 'On To Smalltalk', by Patrick Henry Winston Finally, there's the excellent ProfStef interactive tutorial that's included with Pharo (http://www.pharocasts.com/2010/01/learn-smalltalk-with-profs...).
on “Why Every Ruby Developer Should Learn Smalltalk” ↗PH Winston's books are exactly what you are looking for: On To Java, On To C, On To C++, On To SmallTalk. They appeared around 2000 and are now on the web: http://people.csail.mit.edu/phw/OnToC/ etc. They are written in an unusual format built around slides rather than pages - even the printed versions.
on “Ask HN: What programming/technical books do you wish existed?” ↗…the format[2] of these books is very effective and quite unique. It's a shame no one else has carried on in this style for more recent languages. In addition to Java, C, and C++, Winston also wrote On to Smalltalk[3]. [1] An introduction to a particular language for readers whoe are already experienced programmers. [2] Content is presented in numbered short paragraphs, many just a single sentence long. He calls…
on “Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died” ↗…would go a long way towards documenting the libraries, provided the documentation is of high quality. However, that still doesn't address the bigger question: how do I program in Pharo. There's a book, "On to Smalltalk" that actually did a decent job of getting you started, but it's decades out of date now.
on “Pharo 7.0 released” ↗