This free book covers Smalltalk style, typical Smalltalk bugs, way to develop a Smalltalk program and testing of 0-0 systems. Explains Unified Modeling Language, and Object Modeling Technique. This book was originally written to support an introductory course in Object Orientation through the medium of Smalltalk (and VisualWorks in particular).
Book Description
However, it can be used as a book to teach the reader Smalltalk, to introduce object orientation as well as present object oriented design and analysis. It takes as its basic premise that most Computer Scientists / Software Engineers learn best by doing rather than from theoretical notes. The chapters therefore attempt to intro duce concepts by getting you the reader to do things, rather than by extensive theoretical discussions. This means that these chapters take a hands -on approach to the subject and assume that the student/reader has a suitable Smalltalk environment available to them.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Object Orientation
- Elements of Object Orientation
- Constructing an Object Oriented System
- An Introduction to Smalltalk
- A Little Smalltalk
- Smalltalk Building Blocks
- Smalltalk Constructs
- An Example Smalltalk Class
- Control and Iteration
- The Collection Classes
- An Object Oriented Organizer
- Streams and Files
- The Magnitude Class Hierarchy
- Some More Tools of the Trade
- Object Oriented Analysis and Design
- The Unified Modeling Language
- UML: Dynamic Modeling and Deployment
- The Object Modeling Technique
- Frameworks and Patterns for Object Oriented Design
- Testing Object Oriented Systems
- Method and Class Testing
- Smalltalk Style Guidelines
- The Perform and Dependency Mechanisms
- The Mode-lView-Controller Architecture
- Graphic User Interface Construction Tools
- A Visual Organizer
- Using a View Within a Window
- Memory Management and Garbage Collection
- Concurrency in Smalltalk
- The Metaclass Framework
- The Future for Object Technology