>> > > yeah, we have a strong intellectual bias. That’s great because we make a tool > to expand our creativity and expressions of intelligence > > Kathy’s point is that we might be doing more to help others be great > themselves through our product/tool/service (Pharo in this case) > > You do that all the time with your students > > They, as everybody, have many options to be hero’s (like solving things with > Phyton/Ruby, etc) so our challenge is to have a smooth learning curve with > fast positive feedback > > Clean API’s helps a lot on that because it’s like the UI of the code > > Great tutorials on how to do popular arctifacts (todo lists, blogs, CRUD > apps) is something that comes to mind for making a bridge between theory and > practical positive results > > At least that worked incredibly well for Rails and other frameworks
I like her point of view. I will change what I will wrote in my book and it is related to the discussion with the pool dictionary. stef
