The Pharo MOOC
Join the Fall 2018 Mooc run
Third run will start 8th of October 2018. Join, have fun and learn (check the testimonies below). This year we have some presequel videos about OOP for newbies French version and English version.February 2018 News
For its second run, the Pharo Mooc got more than 2500 participants with around 500 active learners from 92 countries with 176 participants that finished it. This Mooc is demanding but rewarding - check what the participants are saying :) All the Mooc material is freely available at http://mooc.pharo.orgWe would like want to thanks our sponsors: Unit, Unisciel, and the LearningLab of Inria.
Testimonies
We would like to share some testimonies with you about the Mooc.-
I just completed the @pharoproject Mooc the best investment I have ever made of my time. MAQBOOL
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Hi! I finished the MOOC some weeks ago and I would like to congratulate everybody involved! After a decade+ of Python programming I think I found my new favorite language :). I'm making a small Teapot server for Slack command bots, I'm goona push it to Github (yay Iceberg), if anyone is interested. EduardoPadoan
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Tieryn - Today at 1:58 PM Hey all - I've just finished the Mooc - thanks for an excellent course and a thouroughly interesting look at a new way to program :smile: Looking forward to starting to play with Pharo on some upcoming ideas I've had.
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rogersm - Last Thursday at 5:21 PM Well, I just finished the MOOC!:ok_hand: Great experience!
I finished the Pharo MOOC a few days ago. Thank you very much to Damien, Stephane, and Luc for their work on the material! I enjoyed it very much
Hey, I've just finished the Mooc. It's awesome. I'm sending you the typos or minor issues I've noticed throughout the mooc. Additionally, there must be a bug in the scoring algorithm, since I got >100% even though I failed some quizs.
Hey all - I've just finished the Mooc - thanks for an excellent course and a thouroughly interesting look at a new way to program :smile: Looking forward to starting to play with Pharo on some upcoming ideas I've had 👌3
« Really one of the best mooc I have ever attended. And I have attended quite a few (openSAP, openHPI). As an old fashioned ABAP developer I want to be reborn as Pharo developer in my next life :-) »
I already had previous Smalltalk experience, but yes, I'm extremely happy Chapter 7 has been extremely fulfilling
A general comment I wanted to make is that the MOOC so far has been great. Impressed with the quality and content, and grateful that it is available and free. Many thanks! Aryeh
Merci beaucoup! 👍1 🇫🇷1
IMHO the videos were very well done. I would even say shockingly well done… for a bunch of programmers who are supposed to be clueless about design SeanDeNigris - 10/26/2017
The more I learning about @pharoproject the more I appreciate it's beauty and simplicity, finally, object-oriented programming is done right MAQBOOL
About this course
If you are either a beginner or an expert in object-oriented programming, this MOOC will change the way you program with objects: come and learn or rediscover object-oriented programming with Pharo!
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language in the tradition of Smalltalk. It offers a unique developing experience in constant interaction with live objects. Pharo is elegant, fun to use and very powerful. It is very easy to learn and enables to understand advanced concept in a natural way. When programming in Pharo, you are immersed in a world of live objects. You have immediate feedback at any moment of your development on objects representing web applications, code itself, graphics, network. More…
Pharo is also a very powerful open-source environment used by companies to develop web applications.
In this MOOC, we will present more specifically Pharo’s Web stack which changes the way you build web applications.
In addition we will present fundamental programming concepts and how Pharo uses them. We will present some coding idioms and Design Patterns to better design object-oriented applications. Such concepts can be applied to any object-oriented programming language.
This MOOC is intended for people with a programming experience but everyone motivated could follow the course thanks to the numerous resources proposed. This MOOC will also have an interest for computer programming teachers: Pharo is a good teaching tool for object-oriented programming and the course will discuss object-oriented design principles (e.g. polymorphism, message sending, self/super, design patterns).
Throughout this MOOC you will :
- learn how to program in Pharo,
- be immersed in a live environment and live a new programming experience,
- develop a web application to apply the different aspects of Pharo presented in the course.
This MOOC will also provide a new vision of the fundamental principles of object-oriented programming, i.e. polymorphism and late binding.
This course lasts 7 weeks.
Each week is composed of several sequences containing a video lecture, quizzes and other videos proposing application exercises and programming demonstrations.
This course is proposed in french and in english. Videos are in french with french and english subtitles. Pdf course documents (in english only) will be available. All other materials (quizzes, explanation texts…) will be offered in both languages.
Obtaining the MOOC
We strongly suggest to follow the MOOC during the next session on France Université Numérique that will start October 16th, 2017 because you will have support from the teaching team.
Join the discord channel mooc on the Pharo community (Invitation at http://discord.gg/Sj2rhxn)
But, you can also access all resources of this MOOC offline on:
How to follow this MOOC?
We propose five profiles to follow this MOOC at different speed and levels. The Mooc sequences will be tagged according to these profiles. The profiles are not exclusive: to become a pharo expert you need to start as a newbie and grow up. Of course, you can also follow the full MOOC.- Total newbies [Newbies] Focus on the beginning of the lectures, you can skip the Seaside/Mongo and tinyBlog exercises. Follow the end of the Mooc but without trying to understand everything. Take it easy and spend time understanding that the system is written in itself. Focus on the navigation tools (senders and implementors).
- Looking for Web [Web] For those that focus on web development, we suggest to get started with the syntax (since we really love this lecture you should really watch the not implementation and sequels), then look at Teapot and Seaside/Mongo combo. From the exercise stand point, focus on tinychat and tinyblog.
- Refresh your OO perspective [OO] If you want to rethink your OO perspective, pay attention that even Pharo essential libraries such as Booleans or collections are plain objects. Yes you send a message to a collection to perform a loop. Yes you send a message to a Boolean to perform a conditional.
- Looking for Black Magic [Magic] If you are interesting in black magic it probably means that you get fast in learning a new language or that you already know some Pharo. Still do not miss the OO perspective.
- Wanna be a Pharo expert [Xpert] Well it means that you should have a look at everything and that you may drop the web part if you are in a hurry.
Download Pharo
During this MOOC, we assume that you use exacty this MOOC specific version of Pharo. To install it, please follow these steps:
Week 1: Welcome on Board and Syntax Discovery
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- Lecture Objectives of this MOOC
- Lecture Pharo: an Immersive Object-Oriented System
- Lecture Pharo Vision
- Lecture Pharo Object Model in a Nutshell
- Lecture Pharo Syntax in a Nutshell
- Lecture Class and Method Definitions
- Live Selecting and executing expressions
- Live Learn Pharo with Prof Stef
- Live Syntax Highlighting gives Feedback
- Live Learn Keyboard Shortcuts
- Redo Coding a Counter
- Exercise Expressions and Messages
- Exercise TinyBlog: Presentation and Model
- Challenge Challenge 0
Week 2: Pharo Syntax, Blocks and Inspector
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- Lecture Understanding Messages
- Lecture Messages for Java programmer
- Lecture Messages: Composition and Precedence
- Lecture Understanding Messages: Sequence and Cascade
- Live Finding Methods with Finder
- Live GTInspector 1: Inspect and Interact with Objects
- Lecture Introduction to Blocks
- Lecture Loops
- Lecture Booleans and Conditions
- Lecture Parenthesis vs Square Brackets
- Lecture Yourself
- Lecture The Essence of Dispatch through an Exercise
- Live Nautilus 1: First Meet with the Code Browser
- Live Nautilus 2: Packages, Tags and Groups
- Live Nautilus 3: Inheritance view
- Redo Coding a Counter in the Debugger
- Exercise Solution: Expressions and Messages
- Exercise Expression Results
- Exercise TinyBlog: Extending and Testing the Model
- Challenge Solution: Challenge 0
- Challenge Challenge 1
Week 3: Design, Class Methods and Collections
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- Lecture Essence of Dispatch: Taking Pharo Booleans as Example
- Lecture Essence of Dispatch
- Lecture Variables
- Lecture A Simple HTTP Application: a Pretext to Revisit Pharo Syntax
- Live Nautilus 4: How to Become a Super Pharo Developer: Understanding Sender and Implementors
- Live Nautilus 5: Navigating Fast Inside Classes
- Lecture Class Methods
- Lecture An Overview of Essential Collections
- Live Spotter 1: Find and Browse a Class
- Live Spotter 2: Filter Results by Category
- Lecture Iterators
- Lecture Stream Overview
- Lecture Understanding Return
- Redo Coding a Little Domain Specific Language
- Exercise Solution: Expression Results
- Exercise Rewriting Expressions
- Exercise TinyBlog: A Simple Teapot Web Interface
- Challenge Solution: Challenge 1
- Challenge Challenge 2
Week 4: Inheritance & Lookup and Web Development
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- Lecture Inheritance Basics
- Lecture Inheritance & Lookup: Lookup
- Lecture Inheritance & Lookup: Super
- Lecture Inheritance & Lookup: DoesNotUnderstand:
- Lecture Inheritance & Lookup: Lookup in Metaclasses
- Lecture Class Methods at Work
- Lecture Overview of Pharo Web Stack
- Lecture Seaside: an Innovative Web Application Framework
- Lecture Seaside: Rendering Components
- Lecture Seaside: a Glance at MetaData and REST
- Lecture Voyage: NoSql Object Database
- Live How to load code from repository
- Live How to load projects
- Live Nautilus 6: An overview of Refactorings
- Live Nautilus 7: Using the Quality Assistant and Code Critic
- Exercise Solution: Rewriting Expressions
- Exercise TinyBlog: Data Persitency using Voyage and Mongo
- Exercise TinyBlog: Building a Web Interface with Seaside
- Exercise Building a Simple Contact Book Application
- Challenge Solution: Challenge 2
- Challenge Challenge 3
Week 5: Exception, Debugging and Reflection
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- Lecture Seaside: Composing Components
- Lecture Really Understanding Class Methods
- Lecture Common Errors
- Lecture Powerful Exceptions: an Overview
- Lecture Debugging in Pharo
- Lecture SUnit: Unit Tests in Pharo
- Lecture Files in Pharo
- Lecture Reflection: Basic Introspection
- Lecture Benchmarking in Pharo
- Live Spotter 3: Scoping and Reducing Search
- Live Spotter 6: Search, Navigate and Preview Files
- Live Learning the Debugger
- Live How to find a bug?
- Live GTInspector 2: Inspect Files and Directories
- Exercise TinyBlog: Building an Admin Seaside Web Interface with Magritte
- Exercise TinyChat
- Challenge Solution: Challenge 3
- Challenge Challenge 4
Week 6: Rethink Lookup and Advanced Object-Oriented Design
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- Lecture Did You Really Understand Super?
- Lecture Understanding the Implementation of ifTrue:ifFalse:
- Lecture Dice new vs. self class new
- Lecture Message sends are plans for reuse
- Lecture Hooks and Templates
- Lecture Runtime Architecture
- Lecture Characters, Strings and Symbols
- Lecture Dynamic Vs. Literal Arrays
- Live Understanding Images and Changes Files
- Live Using the Pharo Launcher to manage your Pharo images
- Live Diffing and Merging in Pharo
- Live GTInspector 4: Build Custom Tab Views for your Objects
- Exercise TinyBlog: Deployment
- Challenge Solution: Challenge 4
- Challenge Challenge 5
Week 7: More on Object-Oriented Design and Testing
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- Lecture Advanced Points on Classes
- Lecture Variable Size Objects
- Lecture Understanding Metaclasses
- Lecture Reflective Operations for Live Programming
- Lecture DoesNotUnderstand: a Precious Hook
- Lecture Reflection: Stack as an Object
- Lecture Avoid Null Checks
- Lecture A Journey in Pharo: A Bright Future
- Live Spotter 4: The Preview pane
- Live Spotter 5: Search in Playground History
- Live GTInspector 3: Understand Pharo Internals by Inspection
- Challenge Solution: Challenge 5
Resources
You can find free and online resources in the Documentation page. We recommend the Updated Pharo by Example book, the Pharo cheat-sheet, and the new book Learning Object-Oriented Programming, Design and TDD with Pharo on http://books.pharo.org
About
Damien Cassou
Damien Cassou received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Bordeaux, France. He is working as associate professor (maître de conférences) at the University of Lille, France, and is a member of the RMoD research group (Inria, CRIStAL). Damien is working on dynamic programming languages (most notably around traits and modules) and software engineering (mainly tools for developers). Damien has co-organized many events (including ECOOP’14 and ESUG many times) and co-wrote several books. Because he loves programming, Damien is also an active member of the Smalltalk and Emacs-Lisp communities. Finally, he maintains many packages for NixOS.
Stéphane Ducasse
Stéphane Ducasse is directeur de recherche at Inria. He leads the RMoD team. He is expert in two domains: object-oriented language design and reengineering. His works on traits have been introduced in AmbientTalk, Slate, Pharo, Perl-6, PHP 5.4 and Squeak. They have also influenced JavaScript, Scala and Fortress. Stéphane is also expert on software quality, program understanding, program visualisations, reengineering and metamodeling. He is one of the developers of Pharo. He is also one of the developers of Moose, an open-source software analysis platform. He created Synectique a company building dedicated tools for advanced software analysis. Stéphane wrote several books on programming learning and other topics such as web programming.
Luc Fabresse
Luc Fabresse received his PhD in computer science in 2007 from the University of Montpellier 2, France. He is currently an associate professor in the CAR research theme at Mines Douai, Mines-Telecom Institute. Luc is the co-author of several research papers advocating the use of dynamic and reflective languages such as Pharo to support live programming of mobile and autonomous robots in an efficient way. Luc's long-term vision is to be able to use Jedi mind trick on mobile robots ;-) Meanwhile, he concretizes all his ideas (models and tools) in the PhaROS platform (a Pharo client for the Robotics Operating System) to develop, debug, test, deploy, execute and benchmark robotics applications. Each year, Luc gives many computer science lectures and co-organizes events (technical days, conferences, ...). He also promotes Smalltalk (ESUG board member) and participates to its open-source implementation Pharo.
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