The experience of learning and using Smalltalk

The authors offer observations from their own experience learning and using Smalltalk. They report that they had trouble learning Smalltalk despite their fairly extensive programming backgrounds. They contend that new users will encounter several problems, especially if they try to learn the system...

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 73 - 77
Main Authors Nielsen, J., Richards, J.T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.05.1989
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Assembly
Identity-based encryption
Inheritances
Inspection
Large-scale systems
Learning systems
Programming environments
Programming profession
Radio access networks
Syntax
Terminology
Variables
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Summary:The authors offer observations from their own experience learning and using Smalltalk. They report that they had trouble learning Smalltalk despite their fairly extensive programming backgrounds. They contend that new users will encounter several problems, especially if they try to learn the system through unguided exploration. They trace many of these problems to the large and diffuse nature of Smalltalk and to its generalist design.< >
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ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/52.28126