Notes used as a basis for introducing Smalltalk using Pharo. This was used for Smalltalk India Meetup on 15th Oct.

2. Know your ancestors – Smalltalk 71, 72, 76, 80 http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/29

3. Image based http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2010/02/nail-files.html

5. What are the means of combination?

6. What are the means of abstraction?

8. Smalltalk has three kinds of messages: unary, binary, and keyword.

9. Every message returns an object and messages can thus be combined.

10. Messages are executed from left to right; parenthesized expressions first, unary messages next, binary next, keyword last.

12. Alan Knight http://alanknightsblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/principles-of-oo-design-or-everything-i.html Beginning Smalltalk programmers often have trouble because they think they need to understand all the details of how a thing works before they can use it. This means it takes quite a while before they can master Transcript show: ‘Hello World’. One of the great leaps in OO is to be able to answer the question “How does this work?” with “I don’t care”.

14. http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html

15. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/