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Re:How learning Smalltalk can make you a better developer by horrido on Sunday July 24, 2016 @10:45PM (#12156140)
The language and IDE are so simple that it takes very little effort to learn, at least, in my experience. But you're right about the class library. However, is this really any different for any OOP language that has a rich class library? Or any language that has a rich API (<cough> Java <cough> C# <cough>)?

Smalltalk documentation isn't that bad. Here's a very, very gentle tutorial: http://amber-lang.net/learn.html

Here's a great (free!) book: http://sdmeta.gforge.inria.fr/FreeBooks/ByExample/

And a great (free!) book for GNU Smalltalk: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/Gnu/ProgrammingUsi...

And a great set of instructional videos from the late James Robertson: http://www.jarober.com/blog/st4u.ssp

And a great Pharo blog: https://medium.com/concerning-pharo

And, of course, you may ask questions at StackOverflow and the Pharo user forum: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

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Re:How learning Smalltalk can make you a better developer by qwertyuiop924 on Monday July 25, 2016 @06:56AM (#12157774)
SBE is so far out of date that many of its details are now simply wrong. GST's docs are actually up to date, organized, and easy to find.

However, I haven't seen all of these resources, so thanks for the tips.

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Re:How learning Smalltalk can make you a better developer by bencoman71 on Monday July 25, 2016 @08:42PM (#12162605)
> SBE is so far out of date

Pharo By Example is being revised for Pharo 5. The first 13 chapters are done... https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/UpdatedPharoByExa...

The whole book can be downloaded from... https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/view/Books/job/Update...

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Re:How learning Smalltalk can make you a better developer by qwertyuiop924 on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @08:43AM (#12165180)
Thank god.

Are there any major differences between Pharo and Squeak I should know about?

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