Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk A Sorted Collection

Name: Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk A Sorted Collection
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ISBN: 9780521644372

ISBN-10: 0521644372

ISBN-13: 9780521644372

Edition: 1999

Authors: Kent Beck, Donald G. Firesmith

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Over the last ten years Kent Beck has written dozens of technical papers for the Smalltalk community, earning himself a reputation as both a gifted writer and thinker. Kent Becks Guide to Better Smalltalk, is a collection of his best work from Object Magazine, The Smalltalk Report, Dr. Dobbs Journal, and more. Each article has a new introduction that takes a retrospective view of the writing. Topics include: idioms and environments; methods and metamodels; architecture and pattern languages, objects, classes, inheritance, and all things Smalltalk! Nowhere else can one obtain such a complete collection of Becks writing. While demonstrating the elegance of Smalltalk and how some of its most…

Book details

List price: $84.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: SIGS Books & Multimedia
Publication date: 12/28/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 428
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English




Foreword



Preface



Introduction



The Smalltalk Report



Why study Smalltalk idioms?



The dreaded super



Abstract control idioms



ValueModel idioms



Collection idioms: standard classes



An Objectworks/Smalltalk



wrapper idiom



A short introduction to pattern language



Instance-specific behavior: how and why



Instance-specific behavior: Digitalk implementation and the deeper meaning of it all



To accessor or not to accessor?



Inheritance: the rest of the story



Helper methods avoid unwanted inheritance



It's not just the case



Where do objects come from? Part 2



Where do objects come from? from variables and methods



Birds, bees, and browsers - obvious sources of objects



Using patterns: design



Simple Smalltalk testing



Architectural prototype: television remote control



Demand loading for Visual Works



Garbage collection revealed



What? what happened to garbage collection



Super +1



Clean code: pipe dream or state of mind?



A modest meta proposal



Use of variables: temps



Variables of the world



Farewell and a wood pile



Object Magazine



Development environments



Whole lotta Smalltalk: the technology



CRC: finding objects the easy way



Distributed Smalltalk



Patterns 101



JOOP



Constructing abstractions for object-oriented applications



Other papers



A diagram for OO programs, OOPSLA 1986



A laboratory for teaching OO thinking, OOPSLA '89



Playground: a programming language for children of all ages, OOPSLA '89



Think like an object, UNIX Review, Oct. 1991



Writing more valuable objects with patterns