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Title: Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck ISBN: 0-13-476904-X Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 03 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't let the title scare you away
Comment: Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns isn't just for Smalltalkers---there's something here for everyone who programs. Kent's insights, experiences, and raw wit are as entertaining as they are enlightening. If you have any passion for programming, in any language, buy this book. Read it. Live it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Useful coding guidelines for beginners and the experienced
Comment: Before I read Kent's book, my team had a Smalltalk coding guidelines document, a boring, cluncky text that didn't seem to help beginners write good code (mostly there so project quality plans could reference it). After I read Kent's book, I wrote a few team-specific points in the margins and declared it our new coding guidelines document.
Kent's book is a pleasant, readable mix of the obvious that beginners need to know and the clever that experienced Smalltalkers can still learn from. I was surprised at the absence of Booby Woolf's strategy for classifying instance variables (as identity, status or cache; see The Smalltalk Report, June 96) and at how little there was on protocol naming. Otherwise, it seems to cover almost everything at its chosen level (which complements, instead of competing with, that of books like the Smalltalk Design Patterns Companion).
Rating: 5
Summary: Milestone for Your Programming Life
Comment: SBPP has changed me. Kent Beck has changed me.
SBPP shed a new light on my previous knowledge of "patterns" in computer programming. I was deep in the DP tar pit. SBPP saved me. SBPP changed almost all my thoughts on programming. It has changed what I value, and how I pursue it.
Kent Beck says that he is not a great programmer but just a pretty good programmer with great habits. Build great habits with this book. Read and reread this book every morn.
If you have studied DP, this book will open your eyes to the wider world of patterns. You will think about DPs quite differently after this book. You will be able to escape from the bad effects of DP abuse.
If DPs were nouns, verbs and adverbs/adjectives, SBPP are articles and auxiliary verbs. SBPP are used much more frequently than DPs. When you learn a language it is very important to learn more frequently used words first. It could be less efficient(or even dangerous) to learn "appreciate" before "thank (you)".
--JuneKim
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Title: Smalltalk, Objects, and Design by Chamond Liu ISBN: 1583484906 Publisher: iUniverse.com Pub. Date: 27 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion by Sherman R. Alpert, Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf ISBN: 0201184621 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 10 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.76 |
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Title: Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides ISBN: 0201633612 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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Title: Smalltalk With Style by Suzanne Skublics, Edward J. Klimas, David A. Thomas, John Pugh ISBN: 0131655493 Publisher: Pearson Education POD Pub. Date: 21 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.60 |
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Title: Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck ISBN: 0321146530 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 08 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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