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Title: Back to the future - (re)learn Smalltalk
Proposer: stephan_eggermont
Proposer: willem_van_den_ende
Type: Tutorial
Duration: 90 minutes
Description:
A lot of the things in software engineering we take for granted these days are rooted in Smalltalk.
But most people do not program in Smalltalk. Do you wonder if there
are more pieces of brilliance in Smalltalk waiting to be picked up by
the general computing community? Come and experience yourself.
We’ll work with you through a series of exercises showing Seaside – the web framework that handles state,
so you can code as if you’re working on a desktop app – and other little known treasures
(e.g. Debugger Driven Development, SUnit – the original TDD framework,
Gemstone fast and scalable data persistence without a line of database mapping code),
fully exploiting the ‘objects-all-the-way’ attitude visible in the Pharo open source Smalltalk environment.
Validated learning benefits from fast iteration on ideas. The Smalltalk Integrated development environment
is still second to none when it comes to coding at the speed of thought. And you can modify it to taste :)
Bring your laptop to pair through the exercises. Take home a web application, deployed on your laptop.
In a 90 minute session, we'll probably do the exercises in a coding dojo form.
We are happy to improve the session based on your feedback
Roger: yes, subject to a concern that it might be a 'sales talk' for Seaside.
Asti: I agree with Roger
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