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This highly readable and practical book provides an effective introduction to programming in Smalltalk, and explains the most efficient ways to think about and work with the system. The Art and Science of Smalltalk aims to demystify the transition from conventional programming to programming with Smalltalk. It includes a step-by-step guide, taking the reader through the basics, via object-oriented programming with Smalltalk language and its development environment, right up to designing, coding and debugging your own programs. Salient Features a guided tour of the Smalltalk class library chapters on many of the many basic tools, including the Smalltalk debugger an introduction to Smalltalk's model-view-controller (MVC) mechanism lots of analogies, diagrams and examples using VisualWorks 2.0