Documentation

Self comes with a range of documentation:

Tutorial

A good starting point is the tutorial ‘Prototype-Based Application Construction Using Self 4.0’, which is a fairly comprehensive introductory tutorial.

• browse the tutorial
• download as a gzipped tarball for offline use.

Handbook

After the tutorial, and for more indepth information on Self, there is the Self Handbook (which is based on the

• browse the Handbook
• download the PDF for offline use (coming soon).

Published Papers

There are a large number of published papers on Self. Note that these cover previous versions of Self and the information in them may no longer be accurate for Self 4.0 and later.

• A Self Bibliography

Changes and Release Notes

• Self 4.3 Release Notes

• Changes
  • Detailed change log
    • Since Self 4.2.1:
    • Since Self 4.2:
    • Since Self 4.1.6:
    • Since Self 4.1.5:
    • Since Self 4.1.4:
    • Since Self 4.1.3:
    • Since Self 4.1.2
  • What’s Changed Since Self 4.2.1