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Even though Pharo has evolved a lot from the original smalltalk, the main ideas remain the same. And nowadays the most active development is done by the pharo t

Even though Pharo has evolved a lot from the original smalltalk, the main ideas remain the same. And nowadays the most active development is done by the pharo team. They not only build the software but also tons of high quality content. I recommend starting with the Pharo Mooc. [1] And then deep dive on their books [2]. From there you can read old classic smalltalk books, such as Kent Back's "Smalltalk Best Practices" and Chamond Liu'a "Smalltalk, Object and Design". [1] https://mooc.pharo.org https://mooc.pharo.org [2] https://books.pharo.org https://books.pharo.org

scroot 5y ago
Additionally,the original Smalltalk "Blue Book" ("Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation") is well written and can be a good introduction. http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook....
- avindroth 5y ago
  If I wanted to try out examples in the book, can I try in the Pharo environment?
  - rscho 5y ago
    Pharo has some new syntactic additions. Cuis smalltalk is closer to Smalltalk-80, if that's what you're looking for.
estebanlor 5y ago
and of course, joining our discord server (invite at: http://pharo.org/community http://pharo.org/community) is the best way to get help and guidance in fast way, we have several channel dedicated to help newbies :)