Smalltalk

Full Smalltalk course — 46 topics from the basics to advanced use.

Lessons

• Reflection & Meta-Programming
• Traits
• Design Patterns in Smalltalk
• Announcements
• Concurrency
• MVC, Morphic & Spec2
• Roassal Visualization
• Web: Zinc, Teapot, Seaside & JSON
• Persistence: Voyage, Glorp & GemStone
• FFI: Calling C with UFFI
• The VM, Performance & Profiling
• Headless Pharo, GNU Smalltalk & Deployment
• Introduction & History
• The Image-Based Environment
• Installing Pharo
• A Tour of the Tools
• Everything Is an Object
• Literals
• Messages & Precedence
• Variables, Assignment & Pseudo-Variables
• Statements, Cascades & yourself
• Blocks & Closures
• Control Structures as Messages
• Booleans & Logic
• Complete Projects
• Best Practices & Common Pitfalls
• Capstone Projects
• Appendices
• Classes & Instances
• Methods & Protocols
• Instance, Class & Class-Side Variables
• Inheritance & super
• Polymorphism, Method Lookup & doesNotUnderstand:
• Metaclasses
• Magnitudes & Numbers
• Collections: The Hierarchy
• Iteration Protocols
• Strings, Symbols & Characters
• Streams & Files
• Exceptions
• Unit Testing with SUnit
• TDD & Debugger-Driven Development
• Refactoring Tools
• Packages, Monticello, Iceberg & Tonel
• Metacello Baselines
• Course Overview