Hi, I'm teaching Pharo to students that are already familiar with Java (master level). I take full Pharo and they are quite disturbed by both the syntax and the disconnection with files. That was my goal actually to make them discover a totally different universe. Some end up loving it, and even turn Smalltalkers :-)
Still I'm interested by a simplified environment at least for the first lab sessions. Noury On 20 oct. 2013, at 04:50, Herve Verjus wrote: > I also teach OOP using Pharo for undergraduate students (bachelor level). I > don't customize Pharo, it's nice and enjoyable as it is. My first and very > simple exercices require object inspector to observe effects due to direct > messages sent to objects. Thus, object inspector permits me to explain object > state, object behavior,... > > I think to experience Pharo in another curriculum for non computer scientist > (and non programer) students and students that are not aware of this kind of > materials (they learn excel, macros, and do data computation and data sorts. > dot). First I will have to convince colleagues that learning programing is > nice and usefull even for non computer scientist students ;-) Second, I'll > need to justify Pharo among other appealing technologies (javascript...). > I'm interested in seeing what I can do with your environment. > > Cheers, > > Herve > > On 20 oct. 2013, at 02:54, Nicolas Passerini <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We also teach using Pharo here in Argentina. >> >> We also have created a simplified enviroment for beginner programmers called >> Ozono (formerly Loop). >> >> I think it would be nice to share our teaching experiences! >> >> >>> I've been teaching introductory programming in Pharo for the last three >>> semesters and starting my fourth. I was wondering whether anyone else is >>> doing that. I've put quite a bit of effort into it and would be willing to >>> share my materials if anyone was interested. For instance, I've created a >>> few little MicroWorlds for beginners to use (jumping directly into the >>> browser is too difficult for complete programming novices). One is for >>> doing turtle graphics. I've gone ahead and shared that for Pharo 2.0. You >>> can get it in the Configuration Browser under the name EduTech. If you have >>> some interest, let me know and I'll see what I can do. >> >> I'm :) >> I have boys at home and I would love to have some material to pair program >> with them. >> >> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Jeff >>> >>> -- >>> Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D. >>> http://www.je77.com/ >>> Skype ID: jochenrick >> >> Noury Bouraqadi Ecole des Mines de Douai http://car.mines-douai.fr/noury --
