For our internal and outsourced courses we used Pharo as a basis since that will become the default for new development.
Benefits of Pharo - less clutter that can be distracting while learning, nicer UI ( ;-) )... Downsides - less experimental/fun stuff, though that can be added. If that's any help... Regards, Gary. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco D'Ambros" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:53 PM Subject: [Pharo-project] Using pharo in a course? > Hi all! > > I will start teaching a course about software engineering and web > development, and I decided to do it with seaside. > I was wondering whether to use pharo or squeak... which are the > benefits and drawbacks of pharo with respect to squeak, in the context > of a bachelor course? > The students know about object oriented programming but don't about > smalltalk, so in the first weeks we will teach smalltalk. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks and cheers > Marco D'Ambros > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
