yeah, we have a strong intellectual bias. That�s great because we make a tool to expand our creativity and expressions of intelligence 

Kathy�s 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 hero�s (like solving things with Phyton/Ruby, etc) so our challenge is to have a smooth learning curve with fast positive feedback

Clean API�s helps a lot on that because it�s 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