Welcome to our Smalltalk Beginners Guide tailored to Dolphin Smalltalk. By now, you have probably installed Dolphin onto your computer and are wondering where to go from here. If you have already completed the First Splash Experiments and your new to programming in Smalltalk, then this guide is the place to continue.

This chapter will get you started with Smalltalk and teach you how to interact (safely) with the system. If you have used Smalltalk before, much of this will be familiar to you so you may just need to skim through this section quickly.

This small paper is addressed to the very good Java/C programmers out of there, who wants to enter in the Object Oriented World in a fast, easy and fun way. Watching the growing Java world we can say a thing: become a Java programmer can be not so difficult. But becoming a good Java programmer in a short time is not easy!!

Smalltalk is a old programming language, born before Java, C/C++. Smalltalk has a good base library (first attempt to build it was done before 1980!) and a very productive engine.

Smalltalk is a popular object-oriented programming language. This tutorial covers object-oriented programming (OOP) with IBM Smalltalk. The material covered here is intended for the programmers with no prior experience with Smalltalk. This tutorial does not provide an exhaustive guide to every feature of the language and its libraries. Instead, it is intended to introduce important ideas and techniques needed by the Smalltalk novice. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with general programming terms and concepts, though not necessarily with object-oriented programming

# Chapter 00. Introduction
# Chapter 01. ScheduledWindow
# Chapter 02. CompositePart
# Chapter 03. EngiTopView
# Chapter 04. EngiVariable
# Chapter 05. EngiMenuMaker
# Chapter 06. EngiDisplayModelViewController
# Chapter 07. AutoScrollingView
# Chapter 08. EngiColorModelViewController
# Chapter 09. GraphicsContext
# Chapter 10. Pixmap & Mask
# Chapter 11. Image & OpaqueImage
# Chapter 12. Evaluation
# Chapter 13. EngiVisualTransporter
# Chapter 14. ComposedText
# Chapter 15. FontDescription

I started to be fed up to see all the books I like to be out of print, so I started to contact authors and collect their old books. I would like to thanks them all and their publishers as well. If you know an author that is willing to give to the community a book, please give him my email. Now if you like these books and want to help us continue you can give some money to ESUG (the European Smalltalk User Group). Donate via paypal

I added some other material because they illustrate the philosophy behind Smalltalk.