Instructors' Guide
Introduction
Terminology
Expressions
Control
Objects
Inheritance
Technology
Summary
Summary
This section presented a brief introduction to
the programming language Smalltalk.
The language Smalltalk
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- design principles -- prototyping
- terminology -- object, class, protocols
- syntax -- method expressions
- objects -- self reference
- inheritance -- class hierarchy
- techniques -- MVC paradigm
slide: Smalltalk -- summary
It discussed the design principles underlying Smalltalk
and the terminology originally associated with
Smalltalk.
It further covered the basic syntactic constructs
and characterized object behavior and inheritance
using examples.
Also, an illustration was given of the use of the MVC
paradigm.