La language design and implementation using Ruby

 

This was a trip down memory lane with the courses that I took with professor Ariel, remembering Ruby and Lisps taking some characteristics that we saw during the course and combining the tools into a framework with the purpose of teaching and learning was pretty interesting, I don’t remember reading this paper before in any of those courses even tough is related, I guess it better if we have knowledge of all the previous courses plus this one to understand it better. 

The paper is more like a manual for other teachers or maybe course program designers so they can understand the framework and also to defend it application on a learning environment, it quite interesting this approach to teaching especially considering the paper has been here for a long time and in the time of witting would have been a pretty new form of teaching. Understanding the innerworks by doing and even extending the tool used for learning is both a pretty good way to learn and to test the knowledge acquired from the experience. 

In my opinion this method of teaching is complemented by the personality and way of teaching of the author, by its own I'm not sure if it can be implemented by a teacher without that charisma, because I understand this I s technical definition intended for course givers and not exactly for the students but it's not that entertaining and would rise a lot of questions for the students upon reading it, if it is not teached in a didactical kind of slow way it would be pretty easy to loss the attention of the students, especially the attention of those without previous knowledge or even those without solid introductory knowledge to the tools used in this framework, it covers a lot and I think an intro to ruby and lisp would be necessary to use this framework to teach patterns and paradigms, but if it works as intender there is a lot of knowledge to extract from here

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