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The VisualAge for Smalltalk Primer With CD-ROM

The VisualAge for Smalltalk Primer Book With CD-ROM

The VisualAge for Smalltalk Primer Book With CD-ROM

Liwu Li, University of Windsor, Ontario
John Kellerman
No date available
Mixed media product
9780521646697
Mixed media product
1 Paperback, 1 CD-ROM

    IBM's VisualAge for Smalltalk is a complete system for developing powerful client applications. This book shows developers how to succeed with versions 3.0 and 4.0 of VisualAge. It covers helpful background information on the Smalltalk language, the common graphics subsystem, the common widget subsystems, and visual programming in VisualAge. It serves both as an introduction to the Smalltalk language and to the base classes of IBM Smalltalk. Programmers with and without previous Smalltalk programming experience will find it useful. Code examples illustrate VisualAge, Smalltalk, and the use of graphics widgets and reusable parts on VisualAge. The book includes a floppy disk which contains Smalltalk expressions and statements, source code segments from examples, Smalltalk classes, and descriptions of examples of visual and non-visual parts.

    • Covers the essential aspects of object-oriented and visual programming
    • Introduces the Smalltalk language and uses many examples to show how to program in Smalltalk and in VisualAge
    • Will prove useful both to experienced practitioners and to students

    Product details

    No date available
    Mixed media product
    9780521646697
    432 pages
    234 × 179 × 23 mm
    0.675kg

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Smalltalk object model and its implementation
    • 2. Graphics programming
    • 3. User interface construction
    • 4. Visual programming with VisualAge
    • 5. The Smalltalk language
    • 6. The base classes
    • 7. Common graphics
    • 8. Common widgets
    • 9. VisualAge parts
    • 10. Database function parts.