EasySqueak on SM
rrobbes
rrobbes at info.unicaen.fr
Thu Apr 15 13:00:29 UTC 2004
Hi James,
I'm glad someone agrees with me ;-).
I don't know learning works ... could you give me some
URLs to discover more about it?
(Google don't seems helpful on that).
Thanks,
Romain
James Hayes a écrit:
> I agree with you that the basic class browser is a little overwhelming for a
> beginner.
>
> Do you know learning works? Well this is what M206 from the Open University
> uses and I found it to be a good way to hide lots of information that is
> unnecessary to know in the beginning. Perhaps you could base it on that? or
> Perhaps you have done (i have not had a look).
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of
> Romain Robbes
> Sent: Dienstag, 13. April 2004 18:23
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: [ANN] EasySqueak on SM
>
>
>
> Last release for today I promise ;-)
>
> This is a little tool to ease the creation of exercises for students
> learning Squeak.
> I did that because someone told me (and was right) that the basic class
> browser is
> too complex to start coding at the beginning. So this tools allows you
> to define
> suites of exercices as subclasses of a class (ExerciseSession), and
> provides a
> tiny environment for students to work with (a one-class browser, a
> one-object
> shell, and a window showing the session's summary (the class's class
> comment)).
> If you want too, you can also define sunit tests to let your students
> program test-first,
> or at least have the assurance that they work well ;--) .
>
> More information and a few examples are on the package entry, and in
> the package.
>
> This could also be the base of a kind of lesson runner, similar to VW's
> one
> (which I find the easiest and fastest way to learn Smalltalk's syntax).
>
> This is a quick hack depending on :
> -OmniBrowser (version 184, which you can find at :
> http://monticello.wiresong.ca/ob)
> -CommandShell
> -Services-Base
>
> Romain, happy to have feedback as always ...
>
>
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