What is Wollok?

Wollok is not only a programming language but also an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) specially designed for teaching initial OOP courses. It is a great tool to incrementally add every OO concept, allowing the students to program from the beginning!

A pedagogical tool...

• How to teach
  • Gradually adding complexity
  • Programming since first day
• What to teach
  • Focusing on concepts
  • Easy to work then with industrial languages
• Learning from errors
  • Early error detection
  • Type inference system
  • Additional and configurable validations
• Simple
  • Lightweight and intuitive syntax
  • One reserved word = One concept
  • "Wollok Game" graphical user interface
  • Automatic diagram generation

...synced with current trends in software development

• Object-oriented programming
  • "Well-known" objects as first approach
  • With classes and mixins, too
  • Has closure objects
  • "Straight" Polymorphism (no bureaucracy)
• Developing software rather than programming
  • Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
  • with unit testing and refactors
  • Git and SVN integration
• A free and autonomous development
  • Created by teachers as an open project
  • Used in many national universities