Users: Programmers learning the Smalltalk language. These people have varying levels of expertise in programming, object-orientation, systems design and systems development. In many cases they are more expert in the C/Java languages.

Problem: People new to Smalltalk first need step-by-step tutorials in the syntax, basic object classes, and messages used for control structures. They also need to learn how to think in terms of interacting objects.

Solution: SmalltalkDoc includes documents in which tutorials can be provided. SmalltalkDocs can link to each other, to SmalltalkDocs at both the packaging and component levels of detail, and to other Internet resources. It may be desirable to define a new type of SmalltalkDoc, a TutorialDoc, that supports the evaluation of Smalltalk code similar to workspaces.