ProfStefBrowser, a GUI for ProfStef

> Hi Danny,
>
> It's cool to be able to create a new tutorial here !  Note there's a  
> bug if you click on "new tutorial" then Cancel.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Laurent Laffont
>
>
> 2010/2/7 Danny Chan <[hidden email]>
> Hi!
>
> Some of you know, that I made my first dabblings in the Smalltalk  
> world in the
> last weeks by writing a GUI for ProfStef. The result so far can now  
> be found
> in the ProfStef repository. There is no Metacello configuration,  
> because I
> don't know how to make one. Load ProfStef-Core-DannyChan.8 and
> ProfStefBrowser-DannyChan.18 and start with 'ProfStefBrowser go'.
>
> I've implemented some navigation buttons and some buttons to edit  
> the tutorial
> in the browser. The idea is that people can annotate the tutorials  
> on the fly
> and may even be able to submit their changes as improvement requests  
> directly
> from the browser. It would be nice to have some buttons to remove  
> tutorials
> and lessons as well, but I don't know how to remove classes and  
> methods
> programmatically. And of course the GUI could have a better look.
>
> Have fun,
> Danny
>
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> Hi!
>
> Some of you know, that I made my first dabblings in the Smalltalk world in the
> last weeks by writing a GUI for ProfStef. The result so far can now be found
> in the ProfStef repository. There is no Metacello configuration, because I
> don't know how to make one. Load ProfStef-Core-DannyChan.8 and
> ProfStefBrowser-DannyChan.18 and start with 'ProfStefBrowser go'.
>
> I've implemented some navigation buttons and some buttons to edit the tutorial
> in the browser. The idea is that people can annotate the tutorials on the fly
> and may even be able to submit their changes as improvement requests directly
> from the browser. It would be nice to have some buttons to remove tutorials
> and lessons as well, but I don't know how to remove classes and methods
> programmatically. And of course the GUI could have a better look.
>
> Have fun,
> Danny
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> Hi,
>
> Indeed, it is pretty nice. I particularly like that executing ProfStef
> next does spawn the next lesson :).
>
> However, I would decouple the two user interfaces because they address
> two different categories of people:
> - the browser is for the one that wants to learn. For this user, it is
> probably confusing to also deal with the administration buttons from
> the bottom.
> - the tutorial creation is for the one that wants to teach. This guy
> does want to see the tutorial, so the navigation bar is useful in this
> case.

> Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 19:27:16 schrieb Tudor Girba:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Indeed, it is pretty nice. I particularly like that executing  
>> ProfStef
>> next does spawn the next lesson :).
>>
>> However, I would decouple the two user interfaces because they  
>> address
>> two different categories of people:
>> - the browser is for the one that wants to learn. For this user, it  
>> is
>> probably confusing to also deal with the administration buttons from
>> the bottom.
>> - the tutorial creation is for the one that wants to teach. This guy
>> does want to see the tutorial, so the navigation bar is useful in  
>> this
>> case.
>
> Hi!
>
> I see the point, although I disagree. Personally, I annotate every  
> learning
> material I get with my own notes, if possible. And new stuff I learn  
> that is
> related I try to keep at the same place. I think this is interesting
> especially in Smalltalk where you are encouraged to explore the  
> system. I
> would expect someone starting with a basic tutorial and then turning  
> to
> explore the system and documenting the learning process in the help  
> system
> itself, and even be able to share it with others. A pupil can  
> quickly become a
> teacher, and quite often the one who has just learned something is  
> the best
> person to explain it to other newcomers.
>
> I see your point for complete newbies, though. So maybe enabling the  
> authoring
> bar can be made a preference, and the last lesson in an introduction  
> like
> Laurent's syntax tutorial can contain some code to switch on the bar.