Rough Price Guide: 34.26 |
by Wilf LaLonde (M206 Chap 37, page8. A respected Smalltalk
expert.)
Based on theSmalltalk Express Program (Smalltalk/V)
Reviews:
This is an introductory text on the Smalltalk programming language.
It leads students through the process of problem-solving and
algorithm development. The book uses Smalltalk V as the sample
environment.
Various Customer Comments
- Excellent! The book is exceptionally well written and is
ideal for Smalltalk beginners. A a good book for someone who
has no OO knowledge or experience.
- It demonstrates the power and flexibility of Smalltalk as
an object-oriented development environmentids overloading
the student with too much theory.
- Provides a reference to the most important classes in the
Smalltalk library, including objects, strings, numbers,
characters, ordered collections, dictionaries and
graphical objects.
- It is particularly good at side-stepping a high-level description
of objects in chapter one followed by designing objects with
classes as an exercise in chapter two. In fact, it takes the
opposite approach of those Fasttrack books; the first five
chapters gently introduce the student to the Smalltalk environment
and to object interactions.
- It sticks to the task at hand: teaching Smalltalk to the
neophyte.
- It takes its time with each topic, reinforcing each point
with words, exercises and homeworks. In summary, this is a
good book from which to learn Smalltalk and objects.
- It illustrates how the Smalltalk environment, including
workspaces, inspectors, browers and debuggers can
be used.
- I recommend using Smalltalk Express, a
descendant of Smalltalk/V freely available from ObjectShare.
- The book takes you step by step through problems and takes
you to a real discovery because it is honest enough to admit
that first attempts turn out to be insufficient in later stages.
There are two points weighing against this book as it stands:
- It's dated; it's based on an older version of Smalltalk/V.
- Uses constructs avoided now (such as the message "become"
to change a variable's state).
Amazon average customer rating: 4 Star
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Rough Price Guide: £27.50 |
by David W.M. Brown
Customer Comments:
A reader from London, England , 11 November, 1998 Excellent
introduction to ObjectOriented Analysis and Design This is an
absolutely excellent book which introduces the reader to
objects with the development of analysis and design in computing.
It then deals in detail with object oriented analysis and design.
The book covers all areas in detail with a clarity of writing
that I have never experienced elsewhere. The attention to detail
in the content and its presentation is exceptional. For the
practitioner or student. If you have anything to do with objects
buy this book!
A OU students comments:
An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis. Objects in Plain
English by David Brown (Wiley) ISBN 0-471-11028-0 price £27-50.
It seems an excellent tome and most importantly is written for
ease of understanding. A rise to arms. Let's stamp
out all obscurantism (especially when it appears in the form
of Academe). Ray
Quiet useful but a bit basic for someone with
more knowledge in the field. Janet W
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