smalltalk

[harrry]

Hi, I'm starting my first programming module at university soon, and the language that has been chosen for us to start off on is small talk, an object orientated language. I'm a complete new comer to programming, (apart from a bit of HTML coding) and I doubt I have the kind of logical inteligence needed for it, but I was wondering if any of you know a thing or two about this language, what it entails, and what it's uses are.

[keifir]

i had a course in SmallTalk in my university too. I don't have any experience actually working with it, but I think it's a good language to make you think in a object oriented way.
and that's the thing about programming - anyone can learn to code, but it's much harder to learn to code correctly. Try to pick up the ideas behind the language - cause then u'll be able quickly pick up other languages: Java , C++, C# and so on.
There's a good author u might wanna read: Bruce Eckel

http://www.mindview.net/

His books are available online for free from his site. "Thinking in Java" is one - although not about SmallTalk, but he talks about the same things u'r gonna learn.
And once u're comfortable with oo and other buzzwords, read Design Patterns by Eric Gamma & Co <- that' where all of that stuff is applied.
well, hope this helps a bit,

keifir

[harrry]

thankyer kindly sir!..what sort of things can you achieve with small talk?...any ideas?....I want make a program for my computer that enables me to put passwords on certain files and programs

[keifir]

hmm... i even couldn't answer what SmallTalk is used for .

i googled a bit, here's a link that may show u the uses of this language, tutorials there too:

http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/c...smalltalk.html

Seems most applications are web services, mainframe progs and so on...

If you want to put passwords on your files, then C would be a better language to do that, or if u'r using Windows - VC++. Then again it's just a guess on my part. There are freeware tools that allow u to do such a thing. A good one is PGP - it encrypts the files as well .

keifir