Pharo by Example 5.0

by Ducasse, Zagidulin, Hess, and Chloupis

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Pharo by Example 5.0, intended for both students and developers, will guide you gently through the Pharo language and environment by means of a series of examples and exercises. In Pharo everything is an object, and anything can change at run-time under your fingers. Pharo is written in itself so you can explore a complete world. You can feel and talk to objects.

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Engineering, Computer Science
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0, as LibreTexts states it
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Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Preface
  7. 1.1: What is Pharo?
  8. 1.2: Who Should Read This Book?
  9. 1.3: A Word of Advice
  10. 1.4: An Open Book
  11. 1.5: The Pharo Community
  12. 1.6: Examples and Exercises
  13. 1.7: Acknowledgments
  14. 1.8: Hyper Special Acknowledgments
  15. 2: A Quick Tour of Pharo
  16. 2.1: Installing Pharo
  17. 2.2: Pharo — File Components
  18. 2.3: Launching Pharo
  19. 2.4: PharoLauncher
  20. 2.5: The World Menu
  21. 2.6: Sending Messages
  22. 2.7: Saving, Quitting and Restarting a Pharo Session
  23. 2.8: Playgrounds and Transcripts
  24. 2.9: Keyboard Shortcuts
  25. 2.10: The System Browser
  26. 2.11: Finding Classes
  27. 2.12: Finding Methods
  28. 2.13: Defining a New Method
  29. 2.14: Chapter Summary
  30. 3: A First Application
  31. 3.1: The Lights Out Game
  32. 3.2: Creating a New Package
  33. 3.3: Defining the Class LOCell
  34. 3.4: Adding Methods to a Class
  35. 3.5: Inspecting an Object
  36. 3.6: Defining the Class LOGame
  37. 3.7: Organizing Methods into Protocols
  38. 3.8: Finishing the Game
  39. 3.9: Let’s Try Our Code
  40. 3.10: Saving and Sharing Pharo Code
  41. 3.11: Chapter Summary
  42. 4: Syntax in a Nutshell
  43. 4.1: Syntactic Elements
  44. 4.2: Pseudo-Variables
  45. 4.3: Message Sends
  46. 4.4: Method Syntax
  47. 4.5: Block Syntax
  48. 4.6: Conditionals and Loops in a Nutshell
  49. 4.7: Primitives and Pragmas
  50. 4.8: Chapter Summary
  51. 5: Understanding Message Syntax
  52. 5.1: Identifying Messages
  53. 5.2: Three Types of Messages
  54. 5.3: Message Composition
  55. 5.4: Hints for Identifying Keyword Messages
  56. 5.5: Expression Sequences
  57. 5.6: Cascaded Messages
  58. 5.7: Chapter Summary
  59. 6: The Pharo Object Model
  60. 6.1: The Rules of the Model
  61. 6.2: Everything Is an Object
  62. 6.3: Every Object Is an Instance of a Class
  63. 6.4: Instance Structure and Behavior
  64. 6.5: The Instance Side and the Class Side
  65. 6.6: Every Class Has a Superclass
  66. 6.7: Everything Happens by Sending Messages
  67. 6.8: Method Lookup Follows the Inheritance Chain
  68. 6.9: Shared Variables
  69. 6.10: Internal Object Implementation Note
  70. 6.11: Chapter Summary
  71. 7: Some of the Key Tools of the Pharo Environment
  72. 7.1: Pharo Environment Overview
  73. 7.2: The Main Code Browser
  74. 7.3: The Inspector
  75. 7.4: The Debugger
  76. 7.5: The Process Browser
  77. 7.6: Finding Methods
  78. 7.7: Chapter Summary
  79. 8: Sharing Code and Source Control
  80. 8.1: Packages — Groups of Classes and Methods
  81. 8.2: Source Control
  82. 8.3: The File List Browser
  83. 8.4: In Pharo, You Can’t Lose Code
  84. 8.5: Chapter Summary
  85. 9: SUnit
  86. 9.1: Introduction
  87. 9.2: Why Testing Is Important
  88. 9.3: What Makes a Good Test?
  89. 9.4: SUnit by Example
  90. 9.5: The SUnit Cookbook
  91. 9.6: The SUnit Framework
  92. 9.7: Advanced Features of SUnit
  93. 9.8: Continuing After a Failure
  94. 9.9: SUnit Implementation
  95. 9.10: A Piece of Advices on Testing
  96. 9.11: Chapter summary
  97. 10: Basic Classes
  98. 10.1: Object
  99. 10.2: Numbers
  100. 10.3: Characters
  101. 10.4: Strings
  102. 10.5: Booleans
  103. 10.6: Chapter Summary
  104. 11: Collections
  105. 11.1: Introduction
  106. 11.2: The Varieties of Collections
  107. 11.3: Collection Implementations
  108. 11.4: Examples of Key Classes
  109. 11.5: Collection Iterators
  110. 11.6: Some Hints for Using Collections
  111. 11.7: Chapter Summary
  112. 12: Streams
  113. 12.1: Two Sequences of Elements
  114. 12.2: Streams vs. Collections
  115. 12.3: Streaming over Collections
  116. 12.4: Using Streams for File Access
  117. 12.5: Chapter Summary
  118. 13: Morphic
  119. 13.1: The History of Morphic
  120. 13.2: Manipulating Morphs
  121. 13.3: Composing Morphs
  122. 13.4: Creating and Drawing Your Own Morphs
  123. 13.5: Interaction and Animation
  124. 13.6: Interactors
  125. 13.7: Drag-and-Drop
  126. 13.8: A Complete Example
  127. 13.9: More about the Canvas
  128. 13.10: Chapter Summary
  129. 14: Seaside by Example
  130. 14.1: Why Do We Need Seaside?
  131. 14.2: Getting Started
  132. 14.3: Seaside Components
  133. 14.4: Rendering HTML
  134. 14.5: CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
  135. 14.6: Managing Control Flow
  136. 14.7: A Complete Tutorial Example
  137. 14.8: A Quick Look at AJAX
  138. 14.9: Chapter Summary
  139. 15: Classes and Metaclasses
  140. 15.1: Rules for Classes and Metaclasses
  141. 15.2: Revisiting the Pharo Object Model
  142. 15.3: Every Class Is an Instance of a Metaclass
  143. 15.4: The Metaclass Hierarchy Parallels the Class Hierarchy
  144. 15.5: Every Metaclass Inherits from Class and Behavior
  145. 15.6: Every Metaclass Is an Instance of Metaclass
  146. 15.7: The Metaclass of Metaclass Is an Instance of Metaclass
  147. 15.8: Chapter Summary
  148. 16: Reflection
  149. 16.1: Reflection
  150. 16.2: Introspection
  151. 16.3: Browsing Code
  152. 16.4: Classes, Method Dictionaries and Methods
  153. 16.5: Browsing Environments
  154. 16.6: Accessing the Run-Time Context
  155. 16.7: Intercepting Messages Not Understood
  156. 16.8: Objects as Method Wrappers
  157. 16.9: Pragmas
  158. 16.10: Chapter Summary
  159. 17: Regular Expressions in Pharo
  160. 17.1: Regular Expressions in Pharo
  161. 17.2: Tutorial Example - Generating a Site Map
  162. 17.3: Regex Syntax
  163. 17.4: Regex API
  164. 17.5: Implementation Notes by Vassili Bykov
  165. 17.6: Chapter Summary
  166. Back Matter
  167. Index
  168. Glossary
  169. Detailed Licensing