Appropriate for Multimedia courses in Computer Science Departments. Draws on the Squeak community: the student, the researcher, the multimedia developer, the open source developer, the hobbyist, and the professional, to assemble a compelling vision of programming with Squeak. Squeak is based on Smalltalk-80 and is the only tool that allows users to explore computer music, digital sound, advanced user interfaces, 3-D computer graphics, Flash animation, and virtual machine creation (such as for embedded systems) across Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. This book is an excellent reference.
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for a specialised audience:
Squeak is a rather small language, in terms of its user base. Some of them might be attracted by this collection of papers on various aspects of Squeak. It is not an introduction to the language, and should not be read as such. You really need some acquaintance with coding Squeak, to get full benefit of the book. One chapter speaks of the intersection with another OO language, Alice. Where Alice is basically a graphical environment used to teach kids the ideas behind OO programming. We see an... more info
A vision emerging.:
This book was an ambitious attempt to describe both a vision of what personal computing could be and to provide a much needed technical overview of Squeak. Although largely successful, the buyer should be warned that some chapters in this book refer to online software that has yet to be written or is not currently available online. In particular, Alan Kay provides an unintended joke with his forward to the book. He states that Squeak is a "dynamic medium for creative thought" and that the foreward to the... more info
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