> > > As a precursor to the European Smalltalk User Group conference > (http://tinyurl.com/42z7752) which is taking place in the Forum next week, > Stephane Ducasse is going to give a one-day introduction to Smalltalk this > coming Saturday. Knowing the lecturer I expect this to be a lot of fun; in > particular, if you've always wanted to know about Smalltalk but been afraid > to ask, come along. All welcome; no need to register, just turn up. > > Date: Saturday 20th August > Time: 10.30 - 17.00 (may finish earlier; there will be a break for lunch at > some point; quiet coming and going is allowed) > Place: Informatics Forum, G03 > > Discovering Smalltalk > > Smalltalk is a pure and elegant object language. This lecture will cover > the fundamental aspects of Smalltalk: syntax, semantics, and key aspects of > the system. Doing so we will also revise the real semantics of self/super. > We will show the power of polymorphism in action by simply learning from > the system. Finally we will go into more design aspect again based on the > systems. As a bonus we will start the lecture with a 15 min presentation of > Seaside, a powerful web framework for dynamic web application. > > This lecture may be followed by a lecture on more advanced object-oriented > design: law of demeter, encapsulation, multiple interface of classes, > composition vs. inheritance > > Bio: He is expert in object-oriented language design, dynamic languages, > reflective programming, language semantics as well as reengineering, > program analysis, visualizations, software metrics. Recently he worked on > traits, composable method groups, and this work got some impact. Traits > have been introduced AmbiantTalk, Pharo, Perl-6, PHP 5.4 and Squeak. They > influenced Scala and Fortress SUN Microsystems. Stephane is one of the > developer of Pharo (http://www.pharo.project.org/) an open-source language > inspired by Smalltalk. He is one of the core developer of Moose, an > open-source reengineering environment (http://moose.unibe.ch/). He is the > president of the European Smalltalk User Group and organize a yearly > international conference on Smalltalk. He wrote a couple of fun books to > teach programming and other serious topics such as dynamic web development > (http://book.seaside.st). > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > >