Smalltalk Bibliography

OS/2 related

VisualAge Smalltalk

Books

• David N. Smith: IBM Smalltalk: The Language - Paperback - 1995 - Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company - ISBN-13: 978-0805309089 - ISBN-10: 080530908X - In print.

VisualWorks/Objectworks

• Alec Sharp: Smalltalk by Example: The Developer's Guide Paperback – 1997 - ISBN-10: 0079130364 - ISBN-13: 978-0079130365 - Out of print.

Although usable as a generic SmallTalk tutorial, this book is made for the VisualWorks systems and almost bang right on the last release that worked on OS/2. OOP but easily available.

Smalltalk/V

Smalltalk/V related articles and presentations

• Greg Hendley and Eric Smith: Giving application windows dialog box functionality in Smalltalk/V PM - Published in Smalltalk Report, part one appeared on page nine in Vol 1, Issue 1, September 1991 while part two appeared on page 16 in Vol 1, Issue 2, October 1991.

Generic Smalltalk

• Johannes Brauer: Programming Smalltalk / Object-Orientation from the Beginning: An introduction to the principles of programming - Paperback – 2015 - ISBN-10: 3658068221 - ISBN-13: 978-3658068226 - In print.
• Chamond Liu: Smalltalk, Objects, and Design - Paperback – 2000 - ISBN-10: 1583484906 - ISBN-13: 978-1583484906 - In print.

By some considered the best SmallTalk introduction and tutorial currently in print.

• Timothy Budd: A Little Smalltalk - Paperback – 1987 - ISBN-10: 0201106981 - ISBN-13: 978-0201106985 - Out of print.

Something of a classic, introduces the reader to the language and object-oriented programming in general, but also describes a SmallTalk implementation and originally came with a DOS SmallTalk interpreter based on the code in the book.

• Sherman Alpert, Kyle Brown and Bobby Woolf: The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion - Paperback – 1998 - ISBN-10: 0201184621 - ISBN-13: 978-0201184624 - In print.
• Adele Goldberg and David Robson: Smalltalk 80: The Language - Paperback – 1989 - ISBN-10: 0201136880 - ISBN-13: 978-0201136883 - In print.
• Adele Goldberg: Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment - Hardcover – 1983 - ISBN-10: 0201113724 - ISBN-13: 978-0201113723 - Out of print.
• by Glen Krasner (Editor). Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice - Paperback – 1983 - ISBN-10: 0201116693 - ISBN-13: 978-0201116694 - Out of print.
• by Suzanne Skublics, Edward J. Klimas, David A. Thomas and John Pugh: Smalltalk With Style - Paperback – 2002 - ISBN-10: 0131655493 - ISBN-13: 978-0131655492 - Out of print.
• Kent Beck: Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns - Paperback – 1996 - ISBN-10: 013476904X - ISBN-13: 978-0134769042 - In print
• Patrick Henry Winston: On to Smalltalk - Paperback – 1997 - ISBN-10: 0201498278 - ISBN-13: 978-0201498271 - Out of print.
• Simon Lewis: The Art and Science of Smalltalk - "Textbook" binding – 1995 - ISBN-10: 0133713458 - ISBN-13: 978-0133713459 - Out of print.
• Didier H. Besset: Object-Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods: An Introduction with Java & Smalltalk - Hardcover – 2000 - ISBN-10: 1558606793 - ISBN-13: 978-1558606791 - Out of print.
• Caleb Drake: Object-Oriented Programming with C++ and Smalltalk - Paperback – 1997 - ISBN-10: 0131037978 - ISBN-13: 978-0131037977 - Out of print.
• John R. Bourne: Object-Oriented Engineering: Building Engineering Systems Using Smalltalk-80 - Hardcover – 1992 - ISBN-10: 025611210X - ISBN-13: 978-0256112108 - In print.
• Squeak by Example - Third edition - 2010 - Available as a downloadable PDF format file or as a softcover book, in French and Korean in addition to English. Written by Andrew P. Black, Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Nierstrasz, Damien Pollet, Damien Cassou and Marcus Denker.

Source code from the book can be downloaded from here.

• Stephane Ducasse: Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots - Paperback – 2006 - ISBN-10: 1590594916 - ISBN-13: 978-1590594919 - In Print.
• Gene Korienek, Tom Wrensch and Doug Dechow: Squeak: A Quick Trip to ObjectLand - Paperback – 2001 - ISBN-10: 0201731142 - ISBN-13: 978-0201731149 - In Print.
• Mark J. Guzdial and Kimberly M. Rose: Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia - Paperback – 2001 - ISBN-10: 0130280917 - ISBN-13: 978-0130280916 - In print.
• Mark J. Guzdial: Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications Paperback – December 30, 2000 - Out of print
• Wilf Lalonde and John Pugh: Smalltalk V: Practice and Experience - Paperback + floppy disk - 1994 - ISBN10: 0138140391 - ISBN13: 978-0138140397 - Out of print
• Adele Goldberg and David Robson: Smalltalk 80: The language and its implementation - May 1983 - Addison-Wesley/Xerox - Hardcover, 714 pages - ISBN 0201113716 - ISBN 978-0201113716

This book pretty much defines the Smalltalk-80 standard and is referred to in the Smalltalk world as The Blue Book.

In the early to mid-90's there was also a regular magazine published called Smalltalk Report.

Related articles

• Why Is Smalltalk Dead?
• Alan C. Kay: The Early History of Smalltalk - ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 28, No 3, March 1993.
• Java versus Smalltalk
• Juanita Ewing: Should classes have owners? - Published in Smalltalk Report Vol 1, Issue 1, September 1991 - Page 7.
• Romain Robbes, Noury Bouraqadi and Serge Stinckwich: An Aspect-based Multi-Agent System - Published by Institut für Informatik und Angewandte Mathematik, University of Bern as part of ESUG 2004 Research Track page 68.

Tutorials and other learning material

• Harry Porter: Smalltalk: A White Paper Overview - An introduction and tutorial suitable for those with some experience with squiggly brace languages such as C or Java.
• Wilf LaLonde: I Can Read C++ and Java But I Can’t Read Smalltalk - Like the above tutorial it pretty much requires you to known a CPL branch language before you start.

Research topics

• Lodewijk Bergmans, Bedir Tekinerdogan & Mehmet Akşit: Modular and Composable Extensions to Smalltalk using Composition Filters - In PDF format
• Ralph Johnson: The Typed Smalltalk project at the University of Illinois - Published in Smalltalk Report Vol 1, Issue 1, September 1991 - Page 16.
• J. Graver, L. Zurawski and Ralph Johnson: TS: An Optimizing Compiler for Smalltalk - Published in the Proceedings of the ACM OOPSLA '88 conference, September 1988, pp. 18-26.
• Kim Mens and Tom Tourwé: Delving Source-code with Formal Concept Analysis - Published by Institut für Informatik und Angewandte Mathematik, University of Bern as part of ESUG 2004 Research Track page 7.
• Michele Marchesi, Sandro Pinna, Nicola Serra and Stefano Tuveri: Power Laws in Smalltalk - Published by Institut für Informatik und Angewandte Mathematik, University of Bern as part of ESUG 2004 Research Track page 30.

Robotics

• Michaël Piel and Samir Saidani: DynaGraph : a Smalltalk Environment for Self-Reconfigurable Robots Simulation - Published by Institut für Informatik und Angewandte Mathematik, University of Bern as part of ESUG 2004 Research Track page 48.