Although Simberon's instructor-led training courses are an excellent way to learn Smalltalk and object oriented programming practices, it's difficult for people to travel to attend these courses or for companies to organize on-site courses.

As an alternative to or in addition to instructor-led training, Simberon will be providing Smalltalk training on CD-ROM. There will be three streams to this training:

• Smalltalk Professional Training - for developers who will be using Smalltalk for their day to day work
• Object Professional Training - for developers in other languages who want to improve their OO skills
• Smalltalk Personal Training - for individuals who are curious about Smalltalk and want a quick introduction

All three streams will teach Smalltalk then use Smalltalk as the instruction language. Although this may sound strange for Java or C# programmers taking the Object Professional Training, we believe that the best way to learn advanced object oriented concepts is to learn them in a simple, pure, highly interactive environment like Smalltalk.

All CD-ROM courses will include screencasts of each section, audio-only MP3 files of each section that you can listen to during travel or exercise time, a series of interesting and challenging hands-on exercises to practice what you've learned, and sample solutions of each exercise with a screen-cast (and podcast) walkthrough of the solution.

These courses offer a much deeper understanding of objects and object-oriented programming than most courses of their kind. They break object-oriented development down to its fundamentals and explain why each concept is important.

The courses will be available by the Fall of 2007.