Smalltalk the fun way

The title of this book could be interpreted in two ways:

1. It will teach you Smalltalk by programming games, and having fun at it
2. We Smalltalk lovers consider this language to be the fun way :-)

Book Contents

• Smalltalk crash-course
• Phraro crash-course

Basic games:

• Number-guessing Game

TiledMorph-based games:

• Introduction to TiledMorph
• Sliding-puzzle Game
• Memory
• Decrypt the message
• Lynx (lince)
• Tic-Tac-Toe
• Battleship
• Hangman
• Minesweeper
• Who-is-who
• Tetris
• Sokoban
• Maze-game
• Pac-Man

Game aspects:

• Graphics
• Animation
• Sound
• Logic
  • Game-Loop
  • Game status
  • Game Data
• Multiplayer games
• Releasing

Non-TileMorph-based games:

• Spot the difference
• Hidden objects
• Quiz-Game
  • Multiple choice
  • Audio
  • Re-ordering
  • Matching
• Adventure game

Notes

Required Knowledge

We assume that you:

• have some programming knowledge
• are familiarized with Smalltalk concepts
• know how to download and open a Pharo environment
• can find your way around in a Pharo environment

If you lack this prior knowledge, we advise that you read and learn about these topics here:

http://pharobyexample.org/

Environment used

The code in this book has been written in Pharo 1.4:

http://www.pharo-project.org/

It should also work in Squeak 4.3 with little or no modifications.