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Advanced Smalltalk

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From exception handling to the Internet, the first guide to advanced Smalltalk programming techniques

This powerful book/CD package is for experienced Smalltalk programmers who are ready to go on to the next level. Beginning where all the other Smalltalk programming guides leave off, this package arms you with advanced programming techniques and a wealth of insider tips on how to more quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively develop applications in Smalltalk. While the focus throughout is on the five most popular versions of Smalltalk (VisualWorks, VisualSmalltalk, VisualAge/IBM Smalltalk, SmalltalkAgents, and Enfin), users of other, less widely used Smalltalk environments can benefit from the information in this book.

Advanced Smalltalk tells you what you need to know
* Avoiding most common Smalltalk bugs
* Using patterns and frameworks
* Supercharging your Smalltalk programs to make them run faster
* Integrating non-Smalltalk legacy code with your Smalltalk application
* Storing and retrieving information from relational and object databases
* Smalltalk on the Internet and its role in electronic commerce
* The Smalltalk ANSI Standard
* Implementing neural nets in Smalltalk
* Style for design and coding in Smalltalk
* Interview guidelines for Smalltalk programmers

JONATHAN PLETZKE is a consultant specializing in Smalltalk development and programming.

On the CD-ROM you'll
* An object-oriented HTTP server
* An object-oriented HTTP client
* A documentation generator
* Development and team source code management tools
* Primitive and external interface templates
* A back-propagation neural net program
* Two public domain Smalltalk development

GNU Smalltalk for Unix, DOS, Windows, and Windows/NT

Little Smalltalk for Macintosh, DOS, Windows, and Unix
* Two Educational/Demonstration Smalltalk development
* Smalltalk/X for Unix (Solaris and Linux)
* SmalltalkNT for Windows/NT version 4.0
* Smalltalk University of Illinois Archive (st.cs.uiuc.edu)

Smalltalk Store Archive (www.smalltalk.com)

569 pages, Paperback

First published November 6, 1996

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