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📣 themodelplumber

Anybody used GPT to learn Pharo?


I was just remembering trying to learn to even use Pharo, and how I had menus going off the canvas and stuff, before I could even consider trying to understand the whole paradigm, before I could even figure out where to write my code, before I could even figure out what code to write.

So I wondered--is Pharo pretty high up the list on coding environments that are less tractable even with GPT helping?

What would that kind of tractability continuum look like? Are there other modern coding experiences that are even worse in the sense of a graphical interface and mental model which can feel inscrutable due to uniqueness? And how would you order the easiest ones?


  👤 obsoletedbygpt Accepted Answer ✓
Honestly, the Pharo language and environment aren't hard to learn, except that the environment seems to change with every major version. Try the Pharo By Example book. There's also probably a YT video series. Actually I've considered making one myself, or at least doing an intro video to cover some hangups that people new to it have, but at this point I'm trying to focus on the things that will make me the most money before GPT and rest render me unemployable.