Live Object Programming in Pharo
Learn or rediscover object-oriented programming with Pharo and change the way you program with objects!
9 November 2020
40 hours
English,
Français
CC BY NC
Course description
This course is fully dubbed in french and english Subtitles in french 🇫🇷, english 🇬🇧, spanish 🇪🇸 and japanese 🇯🇵
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…
Pharo is also a very powerful open-source environment used by companies to develop web applications.
Throughout this MOOC you will be immersed in a live environment and live a new programming experience.
This MOOC will start with a special, optional, sequence for Newbies to introduce the basics on object-oriented programming. All along this MOOC, we present more specifically Pharo’s Web stack which changes the way you build web applications. In addition we present fundamental programming concepts and how Pharo uses them. We 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. it also has 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).
This MOOC will also provide a new vision of the fundamental principles of object-oriented programming, i.e. polymorphism and late binding.
Course objectives
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- to program in Pharo,
- to develop a web application to apply the different aspects of Pharo.
Testimony of a participant "I have just completed week seven of the Pharo MOOC (beginner and object oriented tracks) I am starting a redo of the MOOC with the web track (TinyBlog project). I have already learned so much! I have spent the last 20 years or so in software development and, following this MOOC, I realized I hadn’t really grasped the essence of object oriented design."
Who is this course for?
- Students, beginners and experienced developers
- IT teachers
- Anyone interested in agile methods
Course outline
- Module 1: Welcome on Board and Syntax Discovery
- Module 2: Pharo Syntax, Blocks and Inspector
- Module 3: Design, Class Methods and Collections
- Module 4: Inheritance & Lookup and Web Development
- Module 5: Exception, Debugging and Reflection
- Module 6: Rethink Lookup and Advanced Object-Oriented Design
- Module 7: More on Object-Oriented Design and Testing
Pedagogical team
Authors:
- Stéphane Ducasse, Research director, University of Lille, Inria
- Damien Cassou, software developer, University of Lille, Företagsplatsen
- Luc Fabresse, Professor, University of Lille - IMT Nord Europe, Inria Pedagogical support:
- Marie Collin, Learning Designer, Inria Learning Lab
- Isabelle Collignon, Learning Designer, Inria Learning Lab