<div style="margin-left: 40px;">I also showed her a little Java.
I was looking at SpringMVC and was working on a simple controller to
setup a form to enter two input fields for a "Person" object. She
got lost pretty quick in all the damn syntax like<br>
<br>
Person p = (Person) people.get(0);<br>
Map myModel = new HashMap();<br>
<br>
She didn't fully grasp the following Seaside code either but quickly got the "sense" of it:<br>
<br>
html textInputOn: #firstName of: person.<br>
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/16/05, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:goran@krampe.se">goran@krampe.se</a></b> <<a href="mailto:goran@krampe.se">goran@krampe.se</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Bill Holloway <<a href="mailto:bill.holloway@gmail.com">bill.holloway@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> "I'm liking this Smalltalk thing."<br><br>He, he a great quote indeed. :) Seriously.<br><br>The way she formulates it shows she knows very little of it (""this
<br>Smalltalk thing") but she already likes it (which implies she must<br>already have produced *some* kind of result - people don't tend to like<br>things before they do) and already feels like saying it (which implies
<br>she feels that she has some kind of grasp of it - people typically don't<br>make judgements if they suspect there are unknown bad things down the<br>road).<br><br>Well, that was a super-silly analysis of a single sentence. :) But it
<br>mirrors my experience when using Smalltalk to teach OO.<br><br>regards, Göran<br>_______________________________________________<br>Seaside mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org">Seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org
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