I also teach Pharo in an advanced lecture on software engineering. Students are familiar with Java already. I usually ask the students to implement the Mine game from Pharo by Example. I also ask them to read the 9 nine chapters. I then ask them to work on Moose by realizing some code assessment tasks.
Are you guys using a different tutorial? Alexandre On Oct 20, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Noury Bouraqadi <bouraq...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <npasser...@gmail.com> 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 > -- > > > > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
