I learned Smalltalk-80 from the blue book after getting the basic ideas from the August 1981 issue of Byte magazine. The book has four parts:
1) the basic ideas behind the language
2) a reference for all the classes
3) a detailed example in the form of a framework for event based simulation
4) a reference implementation of the virtual machine
It was later released as the purple book without part 4 for people interested in learning Smalltalk-80 but not in implementing it.
The link for the blue book is from Stéphane's collection which includes many other books, including ones that some people might find easier to learn from:
It was later released as the purple book without part 4 for people interested in learning Smalltalk-80 but not in implementing it.
The link for the blue book is from Stéphane's collection which includes many other books, including ones that some people might find easier to learn from:
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html