Users: Programmers doing their first projects in Smalltalk. These people have gone beyond the need for tutorials, but they are often overwhelmed by the size and complexity of the class library. They also need guidance in adopting best practices.

Problem: Today, this need is partially met by a set of PDF "Guide" documents, which are not, however, directly available in the Smalltalk environment. The files containing these guides must be located, the correct guide selected and opened, and then searched for the required text. While these guides are indexed and searchable, they do not and cannot provide hypertext links to more detailed Smalltalk packaging and component documentation.

Solution: Existing guide documents can be broken into topical pieces and incorporated as overview documents into an on-line set of SmalltalkDoc documents that are immediately available in the Smalltalk environment.