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.
- Total newbies [newbie] 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 the web, 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 Tea pot 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.