Hi Dimitris,
Goals 1 to 6 overlap with the ones Grafoscopio. Could you test it please
to see if we can work together in some way or Grafoscopio could work as
a foundation for your work? In that way we could break the lonely
developer reality for this one.
Cheers,
Offray
On 27/10/16 09:00, Dimitris Chloupis wrote:
I decided to make a new version for ProfStef released under then name
"Pharo Live Tutorial".
My goals are to:
1) add to it a history panel, so the user can navigate to the part he
wants.
2) group parts into chapters to make progress more clear
3) break some parts to smaller parts to ensure smooth learning curve
4) add it to the help section of the world menu , so it is far more
visible to the user
5) link parts to relevant chapter and section of PBE5 (or any other
relevant book), so the user can easily access more detailed info in
case he wants to.
6) Design the tool so it can accommodate multiple tutorials, each
having its own chapters and parts
7) Design a GUI to navigate to tutorials
8) Integrate it with GTSpotter so the user can easily find the
information he or she wants
9) Integrate small challenge games to help the user test what he
learned and have fun at the same time, with ability to be awarded with
a score in terms of "levels" and of course badges for achievements ;)
10) Provide an integrated blog (nothing fancy, just text) , for latest
news about pharo , this blog will be basically copying some of my blog
posts , to show to users that we are alive and kicking and not just an
almost dead project and of course advertise the hard work of many of
my fellow guardians of the light.
PS: obviously references to Stef will remain and he will be credited
as author of the tutorial
Can't promise when it will be ready and can't promise first version
will include all the above but this is the direction I want to go with
this. This live interactive tutorial will replace my video tutorials
since they are too hard to keep updated.
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:04 PM Vitor Medina Cruz
<vitormc...@gmail.com <mailto:vitormc...@gmail.com>> wrote:
*stepharo:*
Why not pushing/improving
either
UPBE
ProfStef
With the Mooc Counter example: In TWO MINUTES people
get something DONE a simple counter.
What else can it be.
I run the following experience during my lecture. I give 1
hour presentation about pharo / vision / sneakpeek and ask
them to watch the counter
video and redo it and it works!
Indeed, you can. My opinion was in the lines of improving Profstef :)
Mooc may be good in a class with a teacher for the student to take
doubts, but I find a little confusing for someone that finds it by
its own in pharo.org <http://pharo.org>.
I have some friends on the field, some are overseas (I am in
Brazil) and when the opportunity comes I talk about Smalltalk and
Pharo and how good it is, then:
1- Some get interested and asks for reference, I usually point to
the Proftef, the site and the PBE;
2- Some are interested and we are close so I can I explain
something myself and show the environment, maybe pairing;
3- Sometimes someone got interested and went to the pharo.org
<http://pharo.org> by itself and I know of that only afterwards.
In every situation people got confused :(
The best time was 2, because I could explain better what was going
on, but usually people try by itself, and that don't went well.
For example, some report to me that had made the exercise from PBE
and got really confused in the end: what was that I was doing?
Where are my classes again? Workspace? Where is the code again?
What happened?
I think it is hard for someone that already internalize the
concept of image and self contained environment to understand why
this confusion is happening, but when you come to think about it
that is not so strange because people are used to files and all
those crap static stuff, so it is kind of a huge paradigm shift
learning Pharo: it *is* confusing for them.
But it seems to me that you are focusing more on fresh people,
been teach on classrooms and such, right now. That may be good, I
am not sure if people already in the industry can be cooped in
enough size to be able to improve Pharo community and use.
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:21 AM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr
<mailto:steph...@free.fr>> wrote:
funnily dale I read it like you wish :)
Le 26/10/16 à 21:53, Dale Henrichs a écrit :
On 10/26/16 12:13 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote:
Hi,
On the issue of contributing to Free, Libre, Open Source
Software (FLOSS) projects, I have been reading recently
Nadia Eghbal and her analysis that confirm that most FLOSS
projects are done by individuals and small teams, which is
contrary to the bazaar narrative. This comic shows the point:
and you can find more details here:
https://medium.com/@nayafia/what-success-really-looks-like-in-open-source-2dd1facaf91c#.e360z53sf
After skimming the actual article and finding that the points
made in the article are valid I would have wished that the
right panel in the cartoon had said "one more pull request
before going to bed" since that is closer to what the article
is about ... an active, community that contributes is also an
important component and something that Pharo/Smalltalk
community does indeed have.
Dale
