Squeak by Example

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News

2010-10-11: Squeak by Example and translations have moved to github.

2010-09-23: There is now a Korean translation of Squeak by Example available!

2009-11-10: Squeak by Example is now available on Amazon.

2009-09-29: A new revision is available, correcting various minor errors.

2008-05-15: The third revision is now available, based on a dedicated image!

2008-05-06: The French translation is now available!

2008-04-23: A Portugese translation is underway.

Resources

• Buy the book from Amazon or Lulu
• Download latest version
  (304 pp., 3.5MB pdf)
• Creative commons by-sa license
• Source code (SqueakSource)
• errata
• LaTeX sources (github)
• bibtex reference
• Discussion list and archive

Download Squeak

• Squeak download (VM, sources and various images)
• Squeak by Example image (recommended!)

Authors

• Andrew P. Black
• Stéphane Ducasse
• Oscar Nierstrasz
• Damien Pollet
• Damien Cassou
• Marcus Denker

External resources

• squeak.org
• squeak dev images
• squeak wiki
• SqueakSource
• squeak mailing lists
• beginners mailing list
• free books on Smalltalk
• Smalltalk Videos
• open source lecture slides (ppt)
• The Story of Squeak (also html)

Random blogs

• masukomi.org
• linuxfr.org
• Tekkie
• Squeak - Dev
• Patrick Logan
• The Weekly Squeak
• A Programmer's Ramblings...
• SWiK
• Lukas Renggli
• Lambda the Ultimate
• Software Engineering Matters
• #doesNotUnderstand

About this book

Squeak is a modern open-source development environment for the classic Smalltalk-80 programming language. Despite being the first purely object-oriented language and environment, Smalltalk is in many ways still far ahead of its successors in promoting a vision of an environment where everything is an object, and anything can change at run-time.

Squeak by Example, intended for both students and developers, will guide you gently through the Squeak language and environment by means of a series of examples and exercises.

Topics

The book helps you get started with A Quick Tour of Squeak and guides you through A First Application. The Smalltalk language is introduced in three chapters on Syntax in a Nutshell, Understanding Message Syntax and The Smalltalk Object Model.

Development with Squeak is covered in The Squeak Programming Environment and SUnit. Several of the key classes are presented in chapters on Basic Classes, Collections, Streams and Morphic.

The first edition of the book concludes with chapters on Classes and Metaclasses and Frequently Asked Questions.

An open book

This book is open in the following senses:

• The full book is available as a free, printable PDF download.
• You can also order a softcover copy of the book from Amazon or Lulu.
  You can also pay for the PDF from the same web site, if you like, but you are under no obligation! (We are happy if you would like to make a contribution.)
• The content of this book is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. In short, you are allowed to freely share and adapt this book, as long as you respect the conditions of the license. You may download the LaTeX sources from the publicly-accessible github repository.
• Source code of various projects described in the book is available as open-source from SqueakSource.

We would like to see this book grow! We encourage you to contribute chapters on the parts of Squeak that we have not described. If you would like to participate, please contact us.