Pharo MOOC

#1

Post by brudgers » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 2:17 PM UTC

Pharo MOOC
mooc.pharo.org

Re: Pharo MOOC

#2

Post by cosarara97 » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:13 PM UTC

This is kind of an offtopic question, but regardless: Is there any application written in smalltalk in the debian repository? (or any other linux distro)

Re: Pharo MOOC

#3

Post by monocasa » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:22 PM UTC

cosarara97 wrote: post #2

This is kind of an offtopic question, but regardless: Is there any application written in smalltalk in the debian repository? (or any other linux distro)

The only people I've heard of using Smalltalk at all other than in dogfood situations are people using Gemstone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstone_(database)

Re: Pharo MOOC

#4

Post by smaili » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:23 PM UTC

Is anyone else having trouble viewing this on their phone?

Re: Pharo MOOC

#5

Post by jayonsoftware » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:33 PM UTC

Even if you are not going to develop any major apps in Smalltalk, its a language worth learning. Teaches you a lot about OO programming

Re: Pharo MOOC

#6

Post by protomyth » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:38 PM UTC

smaili wrote: post #4

Is anyone else having trouble viewing this on their phone?

Oh yeah, it goes really slow and scrolling is broken and really off center. I gave up.

Re: Pharo MOOC

#7

Post by jchook » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:39 PM UTC

smaili wrote: post #4

Is anyone else having trouble viewing this on their phone?

Came to comments to see what this even is.

Re: Pharo MOOC

#8

Post by spooneybarger » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:43 PM UTC

monocasa wrote: post #3

cosarara97 wrote: post #2

This is kind of an offtopic question, but regardless: Is there any application written in smalltalk in the debian repository? (or any other linux distro)

The only people I've heard of using Smalltalk at all other than in dogfood situations are people using Gemstone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstone_(database)

I know of a number of smaller business that are "as a service" that are built using Smalltalk.

Re: Pharo MOOC

#9

Post by shock » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:53 PM UTC

smaili wrote: post #4

Is anyone else having trouble viewing this on their phone?

Works well for me on Firefox/Android besides the video making the page wider than the screen width. What trouble are you having? Which browser/OS?

Re: Pharo MOOC

#10

Post by daveFNbuck » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:54 PM UTC

jayonsoftware wrote: post #5

Even if you are not going to develop any major apps in Smalltalk, its a language worth learning. Teaches you a lot about OO programming

Isn't Pharo a different language from Smalltalk?