I also teach Pharo in an advanced lecture on software engineering. Students are familiar with Java already. I usually ask the students to implement the Mine game from Pharo by Example. I also ask them to read the 9 nine chapters. I then ask them to work on Moose by realizing some code assessment tasks. Are you guys using a different tutorial? Alexandre On Oct 20, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Noury Bouraqadi <bouraqadi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm teaching Pharo to students that are already familiar with Java (master level). I take full Pharo and they are quite disturbed by both the syntax and the disconnection with files. That was my goal actually to make them discover a totally different universe. Some end up loving it, and even turn Smalltalkers :-)
Still I'm interested by a simplified environment at least for the first lab sessions.
Noury On 20 oct. 2013, at 04:50, Herve Verjus wrote:
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@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
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