Talk from Smalltalks conference 2013 with Gisela Decuzzi. It's an overview of the concepts we were taught (and we do taught afterwards), the focus we made, and the tool we build to support them.

1. How I (we) learnt
Smalltalk
Gise Decuzzi
&
Guille Polito
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2. Procedural programming
top down diagrams
(and maybe just that)
Pascal,
debug with stdout
Programming Background
C, pointers, stuff
manual
memory management,
premature optimizations
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3. Programming
Paradigms
a classroom full of (crazy) people
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4. Programming
Paradigms
a classroom full of (crazy) people
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5. Programming
Paradigms
a classroom full of (crazy) people
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6. Programming
Paradigms
a classroom full of (crazy) people
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7. Object
are the main characters
i.e., pepita the swallow
Message
the language of the objects
pepita fly: 20
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8. Polymorphism
where messages become stars
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9. Polymorphism
where messages become stars
or
“may the force be with oop”
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10. Visual feedback
to understand what happens in the backstage
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11. Code from km0
get dirty soon
fail fast
practice more!
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12. Where are the classes?
be patient, my dear padawan
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13. ozono
formerly loop, formerly object browser
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formerly loop, formerly object browser
yes, we have a problem sticking with names
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Focus on simple ideas: object, message, polymorphism
Raise complexity gradually
Visual Feedback
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deleted scene (for the extended edition)
Sharing behavior: prototype based
Emphasis on object references
Utilities for teachers (like us)
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deleted scene 2 (for the extended edition)
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MIT (open source, contributions are welcome ;)
We have some doc (spanish so far) :)
https://sites.google.com/site/objectbrowsertool/
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