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
