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
