[Newbies] [ANN] Koans for Teaching the Basics of Smalltalk

[Casey Ransberger]

That's a great idea! Thanks for sharing this. 

On Dec 13, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Michael Perscheid <michaelperscheid at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> it's a pleasure for me to announce the Koans tutorial project for teaching beginners the basics of Smalltalk. Inspired by the Edgecase Ruby Koans project and the original "The little Lisper" book by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen, we have implemented Smalltalk Koans in order to help our students to get started with Smalltalk. 
> 
> Smalltalk Koans will guide you as a Smalltalk novice from first steps in Smalltalk to your first small project. The path is simple: You get a task, you solve it and, in the process, learn something. The Koans Sensei (jap.: teacher) will be your guide and introduce you to fundamental concepts in Smalltalk such as strings, blocks, collections and many more.
> 
> After a first internal use, we'd like to announce that we make this tutorial project available for the community.
> 
> https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/trac/SqueakCommunityProjects/wiki/smalltalk_koans
> 
> Especially, we'd like to acknowledge our student assistants, Eric Seckler, Robin Schreiber, and Partick Rein for implementing Koans in Smalltalk.
> 
> If you have any wishes for new lectures and feedback to existing ones, please let us know.
> 
> Best regards,
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