+1 to elegant code examples from Sven's blog post. Also something
related with web data scrapping and browsing seems valuable and close to
newbies. We have been using this approach on our local workshops in our
hackathon and have worked pretty well.
Cheers,
Offray
On 18/06/15 12:57, Dmitri Z
Stef:
+1 about using somethign with ZnClient. Manipulating web pages (getting
data, or filling out forms) is something all students can understand and
get excited about (versus some of the other traditional code snippets in
books).
Sven:
Wow, nice link! Those are excellent snippets.
On Wed, Jun 1
Here are some more
https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/elegant-pharo-code-bb590f0856d0
Maybe for teaching, the example should somehow be familiar, recognisable.
On the other hand, that might be confusing and lead to too many comparisons.
> On 17 Jun 2015, at 21:53, stepharo wrote:
>
> Hi
>
Hi
For the mooc I have a lecture called Pharo Syntax in a nutshell and I
would love to get a couple of simple examples
that show the syntax but are not totally boring.
I thought about something like
ZnClient new
url: 'http://localhost:8080/books/1';
formAt: 'author' put: