From: Huw Collingbourne <huw@...>
Date: 2006-12-06T08:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: smalltalk resources for ruby hackers?


"Giles Bowkett" <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:2d81dedb0612051423r55872683s13f39d6db41c8083@mail.gmail.com...
> I've been coding in Ruby almost exclusively for about six months, and
> playing with advanced features. My background is a little Ruby, a
> little Python, a little Java, and a ton of Perl. Any advice on
> learning Smalltalk, going from Ruby?

Start by downloading some free (and completely legal!) books here:
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/FreeBooks.html

Practical Smalltalk (shafer and Ritz) and Smalltalk an Introduction (Hopkins 
and Horan) are pretty good introductions. For a simple introduction you 
might also find a couple of tutorials which I wrote (for Squeak or Dolphin 
Smalltalk - both of which are free) to be of use:

http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/programming/smalltalk/smalltalk1.html
http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/programming/smalltalk/dolphintutorial.html

best wishes
Huw Collingbourne

http://www.sapphiresteel.com
Ruby Programming In Visual Studio 2005