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This book is intended as an introduction to object-orientation for 2nd, 3rd and 4th year computer science and software engineering students or those actively involved in the software industry. John Hunt adopts a 'hands on' approach providing a thorough introduction to O-O as well as to the language itself - unlike other Smalltalk books currently available which tend to focus primarily on the language. Issues such as Smalltalk style, typical Smalltalk bugs and the way to develop a Smalltalk program are comprehensively covered, as is the testing of O-O systems.

"As we looked at the available book titles about Smalltalk programming when we started this project, we noticed that those books as well as documentation for Smalltalk products, provided very good introductory information. But the level of detail was such that these materials did not really help the reader to see easily how real-world applications could be constructed in Smalltalk. Yet we realized, too, that once you have a Smalltalk environment in your hands, the natural thing to want to do is to build something useful and interesting.

As its title suggests, this book is an introduction to three ideas and the connections between them. Before describing the content of the book in detail, we describe each concept briefly. More extensive introductory descriptions of each concept are in the introductions and notes to Chapters 2, 3 and 4.