Alan kay talks about the educational ideas behind smalltalk. Alan kay in the late 1960s, jean sammet was able to track down and chronicle about 3,000 programming languages that were extant then. Alan kay project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks read. If you dont know, much of alan kays work has centered around how to make computing into a medium for kids to learn in. Smalltalk is a fully objectoriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language with no nonobject types. The story of squeaka practical smalltalk written in itself. I have asked alan kay about his definition of object oriented and he told me in 2003. The simplest possible model for a component of a computer program is itself a computer. Alan kay is still waiting for his dream to come true hacker. Alan kay, adele goldberg, dan ingalls, diana merryshapiro, ted kaehler, larry tesler, and bob flegel for having the insights in the first place, so i had something to write down. Alan kay invented smalltalk and objectoriented programming. In his paper the early history of smalltalk, creator alan c.
Lisp and smalltalk did not run well on the early microprocessors produced by these companies in the 1970s. Alan kay was bornon may 17, 1940 in springfield, massachusetts, united states, is computer scientist. Alan kay meaning of oop objectoriented definition term notion meaning explanation what is, document, page 721691. Alan kay is still waiting for his dream to come true. Oop to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of stateprocess, and extreme latebinding of all things. Smalltalk was the product of research led by alan kay at xerox palo alto research center parc. Your comment suggest that alan kay deliberately discarded books written by women, and i find that hard to believe. Alan kay is still waiting for his dream to come true 337 points by sohkamyung on sept 16, 2017. The early history of smalltalk lambda the ultimate.
Smalltalk programmingbeginning wikibooks, open books. I used kay s point about how bad processor designs were partly to blame for that, because a large part of why programmers make their choices has to do with tradition this gets translated to familiarity. Ramblings towards a kiddikomp, in stanford al project lab notebook, nov. I thought it would be easier to get the dynabook into schools as a trojan horse by simply replacing school books rahter than to try to explain to teachers and school boards what was really great about personal computing. First i would like to thank the xerox parc learning research group alan kay, adele goldberg, dan ingalls, diana merryshapiro, ted kaehler, larry tesler. Kay received a doctorate in computer science from the university of utah in 1969. However most people just refer to smalltalk as the language and mean the smalltalk80 dialect of the language or a derivative of it as virtually all modern smalltalk systems implement an. I will leave the story of early smalltalk in 1981 when an extensive series of articles on smalltalk80 was published in byte magazine, byte 1981 followed by adeles and dave robsons books goldberg 1983 and the official release of the system in 1983. Alan kay is the author of fry the monkeys create a solution 5. It reminds me somewhat of an online tutorial i saw for ruby called tryruby many years ago. Meaning of objectoriented programming according to dr. Dec 12, 2017 from time to time someone asks me what i think about what alan kay, the father of oop, the designer of smalltalk, the first objectoriented language, said in 1998 about oop.
This was largely in response to alan kays famous 1997 oopsla keynote. Smalltalk was the product of research led by alan kay at xerox palo alto. Alan kay is one of those pure researchers but he has had the privilege of seeing a more direct connection between his ideas and marketable products. Alan kay e inventore del linguaggio di programmazione smalltalk, e uno dei padri della programmazione orientata agli oggetti. The early history of smalltalk history of programming. Turing award, the highest honour in computer science, for his contributions to objectoriented programming languages, including smalltalk. She is an actress, playwright, screenwriter and producer known for cowriting the science fiction film tron and has two emmys for production to her credit. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The early history of smalltalk acm sigplan notices. Smalltalk programminghistory wikibooks, open books for an open. Alan kay, turing award recipient, interviewed itworld. Books by alan kay author of fry the monkeys create a solution. Alan kay on the meaning of objectoriented programming.
I think its just the more valuefree observation that this set of data points is biased. On the surface, smalltalk is an objectoriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language. She is an actress, playwright, screenwriter and producer known for cowriting the science fiction film. Alan kay however, i am no big fan of smalltalk either, even though it compares very favourably with most programming systems today i dont like any of them, and i dont think any of them are suitable for the real programming problems of today, whether for systems or for endusers. A conversation with alan kay big talk with the creator of smalltalkand much more. This biography outlines his early life, career, major works, awards, personal life, legacy and trivia. Famous for being the pioneer of objectorientation, revolutionizing ui concepts, and codesigner of smalltalk, kay also read more than 100 books before the first grade, leading him to realize his. He has been elected a fellow of the american academy of arts and sciences, the national academy of engineering, and the royal society of arts.
Alan kay whose team contains several of the early developers of smalltalk. And i already knew that the teachers were lying to me. Many books have been written about oop and even among experts, there is. Alan kay, american computer scientist and winner of the 2003 a. When you want to gain a historical perspective on personal computing and programming languages, why not turn to one of the industrys preeminent pioneers. The big idea behind this website is to provide a source of information about smalltalk in general. However, this book is not a reference to squeak, in part because such a thing on paper, at least would be impossible, as suggested by alan kay in his foreword. Smalltalk has a large number of innovative features, which have a profound impact on its programming language, development environment and software process. Points of view a tribute to alan kay by ian piumarta and kimberly rose eds viewpoints research institute isbn 97809743115, 272 pages 2010 comments from viewpoint research. Objectoriented design with multimedia applications.
I had the misfortune or the fortune to learn how to read fluently starting about the age of three, so i had read maybe 150 books by the time i hit. Proceedings of the 12th acm sigplan conference on objectoriented programming, systems, languages, and applications oopsla, acm sigplan notices, vol. Alan kay explains when objectoriented was first used and what it means. Everything here except the involves sending more messages. We share it for those who want to learn more about some of the writing that influenced him and the creation of etoys. Smalltalk s designand existenceis due to the insight that everything we can describe can be represented by the recursive composition of a single kind of behavioral building block that hides its combination of state and process inside itself and can be dealt with only through the exchange of messages. Alan kay biography alan kay is a pioneering computer scientist. If you dont know, much of alan kay s work has centered around how to make computing into a medium for kids to learn in. That might be relevant to someone who expects the list to. Byte 1981 followed by adeles and dave robsons books goldberg 1983 and the official release of the system in 1983. This is an amazing lesson in theories of how we learn, especially learning by doing. Alan kay designed most of the early smalltalk versions, adele goldberg wrote most of the documentation, and dan ingalls implemented most of the early versions.
The objectoriented programming model was created in response to the growing complexity of computer programs. Dan ingalls, ted kaehler, john maloney, scott wallace, and alan kay. The result was a new user interface, proposed to replace the squeak morphic user. Computer scientist alan kay was born on the 17 may 1940 in springfield massachusetts. Alan kay viewed it as more in the spirit of the original objectoriented programming. Projects are tied to state and national standards and frameworks in math and science. New squeak books i am involved in two book projects on squeak. Updated pharo by example is good for learning pharo, the smalltalk dialect that i usually recommend although squeak and dolphin smalltalk are good alternatives.
Kay was a gifted child and was reading fluently by the age of three. Inoltre ha concepito i laptop, ha inventato le interfacce grafiche moderne, ha contribuito a creare ethernet ed il modello clientserver. Alan curtis kay is an american computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on objectoriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. The smalltalk community has not good sources of information, or theyre all over the net, and sometimes its difficult to find them. Smalltalk is an objectoriented, dynamically typed reflective programming language. It was the first programming language with object orientation as the main paradigm 1. He literally said that the very term object was misleading and a. Their explorations led them to develop not only the prescient vision of notebook computing the. Books by alan kay author of fry the monkeys create a. Alan curti s k ay born may 17, 1940 is an american computer scientist. Smalltalks designand existenceis due to the insight that everything we can describe can be represented by the recursive composition of a single kind of behavioral building block that hides its combination of state and process inside itself and can be dealt with only through the exchange of. So i had read maybe 150 books by the time i hit 1st grade. When attempting to design a complex system, alan kay reasoned that you should split it into simple components.
Since 2004, clubsmalltalk is a nonprofit organization which congregates smalltalk programmers and enthusiastics. The current fascination with personal computing is described as inverse vandalism where systems are built simply because they are easy to build, whereas real problems have. If youve worked with smalltalk or erlang youve probably had this. Smalltalk programminghistory wikibooks, open books for an.
The story of squeak a practical smalltalk written in itself. Smalltalk is an objectoriented programming language developed by alan kay, dan ingalls, adel goldberg, ted kaehler, scott wallace, and others during the 1970s, influenced by lisp, logo,sketchpad and simula. He is best known for his pioneering work on objectoriented programming and windowing graphical user interface gui design. Alan lines up a number of systems including englebarts sketchpad, the flexmachine, the rand tablet and smalltalk, all of which were way ahead of their time and demonstrate some concepts not carried through even today. Alan curtis kay born may 17, 1940 1 is an american computer scientist. From time to time someone asks me what i think about what alan kay, the father of oop, the designer of smalltalk, the first objectoriented language, said in 1998 about oop. It has influenced the design of many languages especially objective c, and ruby. The associated squeak programming environment is a solid smalltalk80 implementation that is being moved in new directions by a team at squeak central, now at disney, led by dr. Highlyrated and inexpensive books on smalltalk programming. Alan kay has 15 books on goodreads with 155 ratings. Smalltalk78 every thing in the system is a dynamic object there are no date structures. Alan kay is a theoretical computer scientist of a very strange sort.
There are some online versions of a couple runtime environments, and i. The following list was prepared by alan kay for his students. Since the late 1990s, kay has been working on the squeak programming system, an open source smalltalkbased environment which could be seen as a logical continuation of the dynabook concept he is actively involved in the one laptop per child project, which uses smalltalk, squeak, and the concepts of a computer for learning. In an interview on education in america with the davis group ltd. Smalltalk programminghistory wikibooks, open books for. This is an entertaining for the ui nut and strong case for software. Squeak for nonnative speakers, by noel rappin of echobridge. Kay also describes the considerable influence of education and education philosophy on the development of smalltalk, and his tale is enlivened by philosophical quotes. Alan curtis kay was born in springfield, massachusetts on may 17, 1940. Learning research group 3 year plan, xerox palo alto research center, may 1972.
The group was led by alan kay who worked on a vision he called dynabook the computer could be used creatively like a dynamic book. Computer programming using gnu smalltalk is also a good book. You might be interested in alan kays 97 oopsla presentation. At utah sometime after nov 66 when, influenced by sketchpad, simula, the design for the arpanet, the burroughs b5000, and my background in biology and mathematics, i thought of an architecture for programming. The smalltalk language was created a few years later, after kay had moved to xerox parc, to embody this style. Smalltalk was developed in the learning research group lrg at xeroxs palo alto research center back in the early 1970. Alan kays definition of object oriented wikiwikiweb. I really like smalltalk by example from alec sharp, ev. Alan kay said, i had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. He literally said that the very term object was misleading and a more appropriate one would be messaging. Smalltalk was created as the language to underpin the new world of computing exemplified by humancomputer symbiosis. This how to project book includes 12 etoy projects in a sequential curriculum that explore powerful ideas such as feedback, increaseby, acceleration and gravity. Kay grew up in an environment of art, literature, and science. He could read by the age of three and had read about 150 books before he started school.
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