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From: rapp@lmr.mv.com (L. M. Rappaport)
Subject: Re: Courses in Smalltalk
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johnson@sal.cs.uiuc.edu (Ralph Johnson) wrote:

>I've been teaching a course on object-oriented programming
>and design using Smalltalk at the U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>for about ten years.  I teach it mostly to grad students.  My
>ulterior motive is to ensure plenty of grad students able to work
>on my research projects, but it improves the general level of
>OOD around here.  The course teaches frameworks, design patterns,
>and RDD as well as VisualWorks.

You did a nice job in the "Design Patterns" book as well!  Too bad you
guys had to mess it up with all that C++ crap!  :)  WELL WORTH reading
by anyone in our profession.  In fact, it's the handiest book I've
read in quite a while.  Any chance there will be a follow-on edition
with more patterns?  

Larry
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