Learn object-oriented design with Pharo

Pharo is an amazing language and IDE from which you can learn object-oriented design as in any other language. Once you program in Pharo, you will never program the same way in any other object-oriented language.

Two free MOOCs (massive open online courses) take you from your first message send to advanced design.

Start with the Pharo MOOC Go further: Advanced OO Design

Two MOOCs, one journey

Both MOOCs are free, self-paced on France Université Numérique, with quizzes to check your understanding. All slides and videos are also freely available on their websites.

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Live Object Programming in Pharo

Whether you are 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.

7 weeks
Dubbed in English & French
Subtitles EN · FR · ES · JA
Quizzes & certificate

You will

learn how to program in Pharo and be immersed in a live environment,
understand polymorphism and late binding with a new vision,
discover coding idioms and design patterns that apply to any object-oriented language,
develop a web application with Pharo's web stack.

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Next level

Advanced Object-Oriented Design and Development with Pharo

Get to know and understand the key mechanisms and the essence of object-oriented design. We are sure that you will not develop the same way after following this unique lecture, built on more than 60 years of combined experience teaching object-oriented design.

10 modules
Over 60 videos
English
Quizzes & Open Badge

Topics

Understanding messages
Test-Driven Design
Hooks: support for evolution
Objects: state and behavior
Elementary design patterns
Double dispatch
Object creation
Sharing objects
Inversion of control
About types

Design exercises range from little interpreters to games and quizzes.

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What learners say

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 :-)— Anonymous, Pharo MOOC

I love this course so much. I remember how difficult it was to understand OOD concepts in the early 2000s. […] It is so satisfying to see lecture after lecture explaining those object-oriented principles while refactoring examples. This is the course I wanted 24 years ago.— bambooer, Advanced OO Design MOOC

J'ai trouvé ça très intéressant, beaucoup plus que prévu ! je regrette de ne pas m'y être mis plus tôt. J'ai enfin l'impression de vraiment faire de la POO ! Ou à l'inverse je me rend que je n'en faisais pas vraiment...— Anonymous, Pharo MOOC, 2019

In my opinion, this MOOC is a must-learn for any developer using Object-Oriented Programming. It teaches the essential concepts common to most OOP languages in a concise and well-paced way.— Advanced OO Design MOOC

[…] 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.— Anonymous, Pharo MOOC

Thank you so much for giving me the rationales to finally understand the OOP paradigm after years of working with it using heuristics and half-understood notions. It feels like a new beginning for me.— Advanced OO Design MOOC

Why the Pharo programming language?

All the concepts you will learn are language independent and can be applied to any object-oriented language. We use Pharo because it is a pure object-oriented programming language.

Live objects

A unique development experience in constant interaction with live objects, with immediate feedback at any moment.

Elegant and powerful

Pharo is elegant, fun to use and very powerful, in the tradition of Smalltalk.

Easy to learn

It is very easy to learn and lets you understand advanced concepts in a natural way.

Used in industry

A very powerful open-source environment used by companies, for example to develop web applications.