Tables of Contents for Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk

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1. Foreword

2. Preface

3. Introduction

Part I. The Smalltalk Report: 4. Why study Smalltalk idioms?

5. The dreaded super

6. Abstract control idioms

7. ValueModel idioms

8. Collection idioms: standard classes

9. An Objectworks/Smalltalk 4.1 wrapper idiom

10. A short introduction to pattern language

11. Instance-specific behavior: how and why

12. Instance-specific behavior: Digitalk implementation and the deeper meaning of it all

13. To accessor or not to accessor?

14. Inheritance: the rest of the story

15. Helper methods avoid unwanted inheritance

16. It's not just the case

17. Where do objects come from? Part 2

18. Where do objects come from? from variables and methods

19. Birds, bees, and browsers - obvious sources of objects

20. Using patterns: design

21. Simple Smalltalk testing

22. Architectural prototype: television remote control

23. Demand loading for Visual Works

24. Garbage collection revealed

25. What? what happened to garbage collection

26. Super +1

27. Clean code: pipe dream or state of mind?

28. A modest meta proposal

29. Use of variables: temps

30. Variables of the world

31. Farewell and a wood pile

Part II. Object Magazine: 32. Development environments

33. Whole lotta Smalltalk: the technology

34. CRC: finding objects the easy way

35. Distributed Smalltalk

36. Patterns 101

Part III. JOOP: 36. Constructing abstractions for object-oriented applications

Part 4. Other papers: 37. A diagram for OO programs, OOPSLA 1986

38. A laboratory for teaching OO thinking, OOPSLA '89

39. Playground: a programming language for children of all ages, OOPSLA '89

40. Think like an object, UNIX Review, Oct. 1991

41. Writing more valuable objects with patterns, Dr. Dobbs, Feb 1993.