October 2013 - Pharo-dev - lists.pharo.org

Re: [Pharo-dev] Anyone else teaching programming in Pharo?

by Herve Verjus

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 <npasserini(a)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 >

Oct. 20, 2013

Re: [Pharo-dev] Anyone else teaching programming in Pharo?

by Nicolas Passerini

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

Oct. 20, 2013

CMD+/ => Comment Selection or Line

by Luc Fabresse

Hi all, I wanted to be able to easily comment lines or code selection using CMD+/ For those interested, a .cs to test is here: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/11959 It is implemented in SmalltalkEditor so it works for: Workspace, Nautilus code pane, â¦ Cheers, #Luc

Oct. 19, 2013

Re: [Pharo-dev] recovering from a deep disc crash???.

by David T. Lewis

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 01:04:25PM +0200, Torsten Bergmann wrote: > Hardware that runs without problems must be from the "good old days". > > If Nico is right then I guess Pharo is already running on an "Ural-1"? > Where can I download the VM? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural_(computer) > Thanks for this link. I had never heard of a Ural-1, and I love reading about these early pioneers :-) Dave

Oct. 19, 2013

Re: [Pharo-dev] introduce Morphic-Core package

by Pavel Krivanek

Hi, it's already integrated. Thank you, Esteban. This one was hard one because of MC limitations (read bugs). We started to move the first methods too. So I will now slowly create the next issues for the next methods movement between packages. The goal is to have small subset of Morphic that contains only basic rendering and even processing so it should be easy to understand and maintain. Plus I want to have the possibility to be to load it as standalone package to non-Morphic image. Because of uMorphic project we know it is possible. Then we will split the next Morphic parts like text rendering. Cheers, -- Pavel 2013/10/19 StÃ©phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr>: > Ok > I will have a look when I'm done with the color integration (I thank again fernando for leaving like that. Basically I had to redo everything :)). > > Stef > >> Hi, >> >> I created a slice that moves the most basic Morphic classes to the new >> package named Morphic-Core. If we want to integrate it, it would be >> better to do it soon to make the slice merging easier. >> >> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/11901/introduce-Morphic-Core-package >> >> -- Pavel >> > >

Oct. 19, 2013