Smalltalk with style
by Edward J. Klimas, Suzanne Skublics, David A. Thomas, John Pugh · first published 1996
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There's a great collection of free books at: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html I found the following particularly useful: 'Smalltalk by Example', by Alex Sharp; 'Smalltalk With Style', by Edward 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…
on “Why Every Ruby Developer Should Learn Smalltalk” ↗A Mentoring Course on Smalltalk by Andres Valloud and Smalltalk with Style by Klimas et al. http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/andres-valloud/a-mentoring-co... http://sdmeta.gforge.inria.fr/FreeBooks/WithStyle/SmalltalkW...
on “Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)” ↗…you're least surprised when you start working at a new company or project. Other than that, I prefer actual books that don't just focus on indentation, but go beyond that, like Perl Best Practices or Smalltalk With Style. [1]: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconvtoc-136057.ht...
on “Ask HN: Your favourite style guide?” ↗Smalltalk with Style (one of the books in that page) is actually a really good book on coding style in Smalltalk. I remember reading it and taking its advice about twenty years ago when I was using Smalltalk heavily.
on “Computer Programming Using GNU Smalltalk (2009)” ↗…Core.Object Instance Variables: anInstVar anotherVar Create methods: Accessors Initializer Subclass responsibilities "Accessors" aka getters. ~ See 1996 "Smalltalk with Style" page 113 get method page 117 set method https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/WithStyle/Smallt... ~ "After the creation of the class StUser, it is highly recommended that you perform automatic…
on “Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design” ↗