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Introduction to Visual Smalltalk Enterprise
Course Description
This five-day course provides a solid working knowledge of the Smalltalk
language and the Visual Smalltalk Enterprise development environment.
Participants create Smalltalk methods and classes and develop elementary
Smalltalk applications, using a broad range of Visual Smalltalk
Enterprise browsers and tools. Participants view and use the major
subclasses of the Collection and Magnitude hierarchies. Participants
become familiar with the built-in configuration management system
and create basic Visual Smalltalk Enterprise visual parts. The course
format is 50% lecture and 50% hands-on computer time.
Audience
Developers who need to understand the fundamentals of object-oriented
programming in Smalltalk and the Visual Smalltalk Enterprise environment
Prerequisites
Successful completion of either the Object-Oriented Analysis &
Design Workshop or, or equivalent understanding of fundamental Object-Oriented
concepts
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Day 2 |
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Introduction
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Visual Smalltalk Enterprise environment
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Review of basic object-oriented concepts
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Messages and methods
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Classes and instances Variables
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Pseudovariables and literals
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Creating classes
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Instance variables
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Creating methods
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Comments
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The Inspector
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Creating subclasses
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The Object class
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General object behavior
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Browsers
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Searching in VisualSmalltalk Enterprise
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The Number class hierarchy
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Date and Time classes
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Unary, binary, and keyword messages
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Operators and precedence
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Day 4 |
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Designing inheritance hierarchies
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Overriding behavior
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The Debugger
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Strings
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Prompters
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Blocks
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Conditionals
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Loops
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The Collection class hierarchy
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Collection iterators
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OrderedCollection and SortedCollection classes
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Class variables and methods
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Instance creation methods
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Initialization styles
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Configuration management
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Applications and extensions
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The edition-version cycle
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Day 5 |
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Streams
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Filestreams
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GUI layout tools
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