The language and IDE are so simple that it takes very little effort to learn, at least, in my experience. But you're right about the class library. However, is

The language and IDE are so simple that it takes very little effort to learn, at least, in my experience. But you're right about the class library. However, is this really any different for any OOP language that has a rich class library? Or any language that has a rich API (<cough> Java <cough> C# <cough>)? Smalltalk documentation isn't that bad. Here's a very, very gentle tutorial: http://amber-lang.net/learn.html http://amber-lang.net/learn.html Here's a great (free!) book: http://sdmeta.gforge.inria.fr/FreeBooks/ByExample/ http://sdmeta.gforge.inria.fr/FreeBooks/ByExample/ And a great (free!) book for GNU Smalltalk: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/Gnu/ProgrammingUsingGnuSmalltalk.pdf http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/Gnu/ProgrammingUsi... And a great set of instructional videos from the late James Robertson: http://www.jarober.com/blog/st4u.ssp http://www.jarober.com/blog/st4u.ssp And a great Pharo blog: https://medium.com/concerning-pharo https://medium.com/concerning-pharo And, of course, you may ask questions at StackOverflow and the Pharo user forum: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html