A little Smalltalk

Timothy Budd9780201106985, 0201106981

Budd’s introduction to Smalltalk programming and the Little Smalltalk interpreter focuses on elementary, rather than advanced topics of object-oriented programming. The Little Smalltalk system runs under the UNIX operating system and can be executed on conventional terminals.

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Table of contents :
A Little Smalltalk……Page 2
Table of Contents……Page 8
Part One……Page 16
1. Basics……Page 18
2. Syntax……Page 27
3. Basic Classes……Page 37
4. Class Definition……Page 49
5. A Simple Application……Page 57
6. Primitives, Cascades and Coercions……Page 66
7. A Simulation……Page 74
8. Generators……Page 89
9. Graphics……Page 110
10. Processes……Page 124
Part Two……Page 140
11. Implementation Overview……Page 142
12. The Representation of Objects……Page 152
13. Bytecodes……Page 165
14. The Process Manager……Page 176
15. The Interpreter……Page 191
References……Page 208
Projects……Page 213
1. Running Little Smalltalk……Page 224
2. Syntax Charts……Page 228
3. Class Descriptions……Page 240
4. Primitives……Page 276
6. Differences Between Little Smalltalk and the Smalltalk-80 Programming System……Page 287
Index……Page 292