[squeak-dev] Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] Vote for the best Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 06:21:05 UTC 2010


:)

But normally this is what do for research... with some success and failures
and we are mentoring people too by pair programming, reading code....

Stef

>> I should disagree. I think we need more Smalltalk mentors. Here in
> Argentina almost no-one is doing mentorship in Smalltalk. What about
> other countries?
> The problem is that mentoring involves mastering so many things
> outside the computer (psychology, pedagogy, management, etc) that I
> only imagine very few of them in the world.
> 
> Some books are fine, but they are too one of the most uncommitted ways
> of "teaching". If actually I would buy a Smalltalk book, I would
> choose one from somebody which has mainly built real working systems
> with Smalltalk and not necessarily is the god of compilers, patterns
> or software engineering. The highest coding skills doesn't qualify
> nobody as a true master of pedagogy, not even give you automatically
> good communication or social abilities.
> 
> Hernán
> 




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