Hi All,

I setup a small experiment for a group of students, when teaching them a
lab about process networks programming with Pharo and Roassal. Students
were some used to Smalltalk (VisualWorks), some with no knowledge of
Smalltalk, level is M2.

I changed the default Browser to AltBrowser instead of PackageTreeNautilus.
I gave no explanation about how to use it. Students had a four hours lab,
and are supposed to hand out a package with a few methods containing
scripts. I showed them how to save a pre-existing package.

- There was no question at all about the browser. And when asked, they felt
there was no need for explanations on it.

- They are not using it the way I expected (and the way I designed it for).
They were using it like an 'eclipse' type of IDE (a single, very large
window showing both the list of examples and the place they were working
on).

I'll probably try again in a different setup starting January. With
non-smalltalkers.

Thierry

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