tbrunz wrote
The competition is certainly getting more interesting and challenging.
I found that if I started from your website to reach the videos, they're a lot more understandable, as the background info needed to comprehend what we're seeing is spelled out more completely there.
On the whole, it's great to see a competition like this being supported and implemented! Hopefully it will bring in more developers. And inspire more competitions, too.
Thanks! Much appreciated! Yes, that was my goal, to inspire people to give Smalltalk (Pharo) a shot. At this point, I'd like to present some comments from the participating teams. Many of them found learning Pharo difficult, even though I presented what I thought were pretty good learning resources (see https://jrmpc.ca/). Did I leave out anything that would've been more helpful? One team told me that they found the Pharo class library intractable due to lack of documentation. I imagine this opinion was shared by other teams, as well. I think they were looking for something along the lines of this GNU Smalltalk Library Reference <https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/gst-base.html> , a more traditional style of documentation. Frankly, I'm utterly amazed that the GNU Smalltalk people were able to create this reference (kudos!), and I wish something similar existed for Pharo (and Squeak and Dolphin). In hindsight, perhaps I should've given them this library reference, but I think it would've confused them because I'm sure there are incompatibilities.
Any chance that the source code for one or more of the competitors will become available after the competition has concluded?
Certainly, I can do that. I'll at least post the three winning team minds. Thanks for the suggestion. Richard -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html