Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?

• pharo

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  Pharo is a dynamic reflective pure object-oriented language supporting live programming inspired by Smalltalk.

  

I think in part it's because the idea that programming is text and math-based is too ingrained in society.

For example, we talk about programming languages. But IMO there are also programming systems such as Smalltalk [1]. I've programmed 2 years professionally in it, currently looking for an engagement in a different language (a curiosity thing, also a resume thing).

I think Smalltalk has a lot to offer by switching the programmer's view of thinking about programming systems rather than programming languages.

Moreover, programming systems is also not where it is at. One downside that Pharo in particular has is that the community is small. A lot of plugins/libraries that are a given in other languages aren't there! For some, however, this is a strength because one gets to learn much better how to build stuff from the ground up and tinker on it by yourself. Given that there is still a lot of low hanging fruit it is easy to become a contributor.

But this part, whether a community is big or small means that I think it's smarter to think about programming ecosystems where a programming language or programming system is the central hub connecting the programming community together.

Why don't schools teach about programming communities? See my first sentence ;-)

[1] https://pharo.org - a modern Smalltalk

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