Please note: this is a description of a past ESUG promotion action. All books have been given out, the "Free Books for Academy" has been discontinued.
ESUG would like to promote the use of Smalltalk in teaching and research institutions. Smalltalk is a pure object-oriented language that is mostly written in itself. It has good pedagogical properties. It is used at the open university for teaching OO. Have a look at the list of Selected Universities
For this purpose we propose two packages:
Note that there is a Cincom Free Academic license for VisualWorks http://smalltalk.cincom.com/community/index.ssp?content=academic which provides support.
There no limit of country location (within Europe) to obtain the packages. The only criteria will be your willingness to learn and/or teach Smalltalk. You should write to ESUG a small description (max a page) describing your situation (include any criteria you find relevant) and what your plans are to promote Smalltalk. The package will be given to the local library of the university of the person who contacted us, but with the legal obligation not to do any business such as reselling the books to other party. Please include the library address with your announcement.
Interested? Go to the Application Form.
Here is the list of the books we will offer to you