SmallTalk Tutorial for Java Programmers!
Giovanni Giorgi <gio@objectsroot.com>
Jan 2002
A small paper to teach yourself the incredible Smalltalk language! It's so easy, it's so fun!
1.
Introduction
1.1 Revision history
1.2 Conventions used in this paper
1.3 Distribution Policy
1.4 Why Smalltalk?
1.5 Background Required
2.
Why Smalltalk is so strange? (or a brief history of Smalltalk)
2.1 Download Right Now!
2.2 Hello world in Smalltalk
2.3 Big Numbers
2.4 Code Blocks
2.5 The while loop
3.
Main Differences between Java and Smalltalk
3.1 Java Versus Smalltalk
3.2 Types? No thank you!!
3.3 The Squeak base library compared with Java
3.4 The Smalltalk Code database
3.5 Multiple-Inheritance
4.
Ending Words
4.1 Going on
4.2 Commercial and free products list
4.3 References