{"product_id":"kent-becks-guide-to-better-smalltalk-a-sorted-collection-paperback-9780521644372","title":"Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk; A Sorted Collection (Paperback) 9780521644372","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Sorted Collection\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWritten for Smalltalk programmers, this book is designed to help readers become more effective Smalltalk developers and object technology users.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKent  Beck (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521644372, SIGS\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 28 December 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e428 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.57 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Kent Beck can pack more practical experience into one pithy maxim than most writers can do in a whole page.\" --James Rumbaugh\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOver 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 Beck's 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 Beck's writing. While demonstrating the elegance of Smalltalk and how some of its most powerful features can be exploited profitably, this collection also illuminates breakthrough concepts in object-oriented development. This book is for Smalltalk programmers and anyone working in object-oriented software development.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Foreword\u003cbr\u003e 2. Preface\u003cbr\u003e 3. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Smalltalk Report: 4. Why study Smalltalk idioms?\u003cbr\u003e 5. The dreaded super\u003cbr\u003e 6. Abstract control idioms\u003cbr\u003e 7. ValueModel idioms\u003cbr\u003e 8. Collection idioms: standard classes\u003cbr\u003e 9. An Objectworks\/Smalltalk 4.1 wrapper idiom\u003cbr\u003e 10. A short introduction to pattern language\u003cbr\u003e 11. Instance-specific behavior: how and why\u003cbr\u003e 12. Instance-specific behavior: Digitalk implementation and the deeper meaning of it all\u003cbr\u003e 13. To accessor or not to accessor?\u003cbr\u003e 14. Inheritance: the rest of the story\u003cbr\u003e 15. Helper methods avoid unwanted inheritance\u003cbr\u003e 16. It's not just the case\u003cbr\u003e 17. Where do objects come from? Part 2\u003cbr\u003e 18. Where do objects come from? from variables and methods\u003cbr\u003e 19. Birds, bees, and browsers - obvious sources of objects\u003cbr\u003e 20. Using patterns: design\u003cbr\u003e 21. Simple Smalltalk testing\u003cbr\u003e 22. Architectural prototype: television remote control\u003cbr\u003e 23. Demand loading for Visual Works\u003cbr\u003e 24. Garbage collection revealed\u003cbr\u003e 25. What? what happened to garbage collection\u003cbr\u003e 26. Super +1\u003cbr\u003e 27. Clean code: pipe dream or state of mind?\u003cbr\u003e 28. A modest meta proposal\u003cbr\u003e 29. Use of variables: temps\u003cbr\u003e 30. Variables of the world\u003cbr\u003e 31. Farewell and a wood pile\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Object Magazine: 32. Development environments\u003cbr\u003e 33. Whole lotta Smalltalk: the technology\u003cbr\u003e 34. CRC: finding objects the easy way\u003cbr\u003e 35. Distributed Smalltalk\u003cbr\u003e 36. Patterns 101\u003cbr\u003e Part III. JOOP: 36. Constructing abstractions for object-oriented applications\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Other papers: 37. A diagram for OO programs, OOPSLA 1986\u003cbr\u003e 38. A laboratory for teaching OO thinking, OOPSLA '89\u003cbr\u003e 39. Playground: a programming language for children of all ages, OOPSLA '89\u003cbr\u003e 40. Think like an object, UNIX Review, Oct. 1991\u003cbr\u003e 41. Writing more valuable objects with patterns, Dr. Dobbs, Feb 1993.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Object-oriented programming [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Object-oriented programming\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Object-oriented%20programming%20%5BOOP%5D%20%5BUMN%5D%22\"\u003eOOP UMN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"SIGS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004614660376,"sku":"9780521644372","price":56.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521644372i_4081e037-c551-4ccf-b281-ee3456ab2b43.jpg?v=1691379465","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/kent-becks-guide-to-better-smalltalk-a-sorted-collection-paperback-9780521644372","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}