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A. BergelAgile Visualization with Pharohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7161-2_3

3. Pharo in a Nutshell

Alexandre Bergel1  
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Santiago, Chile
 

Programming is the skill that allows you to tell a computer what it has to do. Effective data visualization cannot be properly exercised without programming. This chapter is an introduction to the Pharo programming language. Although I have tried to make this chapter smooth and easy to read, having some basic programming knowledge will help you better understand it, and indeed the book as a whole.

Pharo is an object-oriented, class-based, dynamically typed programming language. Pharo promotes live programming at its heart, and it does this very well. If these statements do not make ...

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