Squeak and StExpress are _very_ close syntactically. The differences will primarily be in method and class names, but they should be reasonably straightforward to translate. I'm not sure about his coverage of the WindowBuilder portion of StExpress, but that will be totally different from Squeak (of course, the original Smalltalk/V gui classes were totally different also).

You might find it useful to download the StExpress documentation from ObjectShare -- the old Digitalk tutorials were some of the best for getting started in Smalltalk and should be reasonably applicable to Squeak.

http://www.objectshare.com/se/seinfo.htm#sedownload

If you haven't taken a look at the Wolfgang Kreutzer's getting started tutorial on Squeak, I would recommend it:

http://kaka.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~wolfgang/cosc205/smalltalk1.html

-- Dwight

Asymptotically Approaching Harmony wrote:

Hi folks;

After doing an Amazon search I just found a book called _On to Smalltalk_ by Patrick Henry Winston - I really like his style, _On to Java_ is one of my fave Java books by far.

So, how close is Smalltalk Express, the dialect he uses in the book, to Squeak?

Will I hopelessly scramble myself trying to learn using his book and Squeak instead of ST Express?

Thanks,

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