Thanks nick I know that several teachers will start new Smalltalk lectures using pharo and this will probably help them.
On Aug 2, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Nick Ager wrote: > Hi > > Though it's been a couple of weeks since CampSmalltalk London, I've only just > got round to creating a ConfigurationOfCampSmalltalkLondon which can be used > to download the beginners tutorial Tim Mackinnon and I created. > > First some context. The beginners tutorial ran on the first day. We had 9 > developers with a mixed background in Ruby/Java/C#/PHP etc. We started by > going through the excellent ProfStef tutorial which we used as jump off point > for frequent asides into the tools and code in Pharo. > > Next we gave them a simple exercise. You can download the code by grabbing > ConfigurationOfCampSmalltalkLondon from > http://www.squeaksource.com/MetacelloRepository.html and executing: > > (ConfigurationOfCampSmalltalkLondon project version: '1.0') load. > > The aim was to put into practice some of the concepts they'd learnt in the > ProfStef tutorial - initially focusing on loops. The tutorial grabs live > traffic information from the SE of the UK. Initially there is only one entry > in the list viewable from their image at: > http://localhost:8080/camp-smalltalk-london > > The first task was to change the code in CSLTransportInfo>>renderPage: to > loop over the results and pass them to a custom renderer. Note we wanted to > pass-on the joy of developing a web app in Smalltalk - the liveliness of the > environment, code editing in the debugger etc - without first having to learn > Seaside. So we hid the Seaside code behind some custom renderers. > > The second task was the change the renderer in > CSLTransportInfo>>modelRenderer to be a CSLListItemRenderer. The task here > was to notice the signature of the addItem method had changed and use the > inspector and the browser to discover the relevant accessors on the result > items. > > Finally they changed the renderer again for a CSLMapRenderer and went through > a similar routine to step two, though this time the result of their labours > was to transform a boring list into an impressive map - graphically showing > traffic incidents. > > Those who were more advanced could then filter the results to look at say > only incidents along particular roads etc. > > The tutorial session seemed to be well received. I don't know if anyone out > there is planning to run an introduction to Smalltalk - if so they are more > than welcome to use the code. > > All feedback gratefully received. > > Nick > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > seaside mailing list > seas...@lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
