how nice! yes is a great intro to "change lanes" a bit more than learn anything.
But that sparks stronger curiosity on experimenting After a intro like that, having a hackathon to actually do something would be ideal Most people just want to "build stuff" that can do the "cool tricks" It's almost painful to hear by the expert but not managing that emotion and turn that energy into something positive is silly since the expert is the best guy to mentor them to do those tricks with "this empowering tech" The kids just want to be magicians for their audiences and the opportunity to help them to do "the tricks" is there for who decides to take it. I'm sure you know this one: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law) English physicist & science fiction author from mobile > On 12/01/2015, at 16:08, J.F. Rick <s...@je77.com> wrote: > > Hi Sebastian, > > Noel is actually my academic older brother (i.e., we had the same doctoral > advisor). Noel's introduction is nice but it is to people who know how to > program (specifically, Ruby programmers). That's useful. The Pharo books and > YouTube videos do this very well. But, you also need to provide a way in for > people who are learning to program. One thing you could do is provide a book > that could be used at a university to teach object-oriented programming. > > Cheers, > > Jeff > >> Da: Pharo-dev [mailto:pharo-dev-boun...@lists.pharo.org] Per conto di >> Sebastian Sastre >> Inviato: venerdì 9 gennaio 2015 19:07 >> A: Pharo Development List >> Oggetto: Re: [Pharo-dev] from 2009's The "death" of Smalltalk to 2014's But >> Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk >> >> >> >> Hi Jochen, >> >> >> >> have in mind that the talk you referred is from 2009 and many controversial >> things happened in the Ruby community at that time. >> >> >> >> Coming closer to today, we just had this presentation which presents >> Smalltalk better than many Smalltalkers I’ve heard! >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGaKZBr0ga4 >> >> >> >> Want to show off smalltalk to non-smalltalker audiences in an effective way? >> watch and learn! >> > > -- > Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D. > http://www.je77.com/ > Skype ID: jochenrick
