yeah, we have a strong intellectual bias. Thatâs great because we make a tool to expand our creativity and expressions of intelligence
Kathyâs 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 heroâs (like solving things with Phyton/Ruby, etc) so our challenge is to have a smooth learning curve with fast positive feedback
Clean APIâs helps a lot on that because itâs 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