On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:39 AM, Brady, Tim <tim.br...@pearson.com> wrote:
> Hi People > > I hope you can help. I am interested in the many schools in the UK who are > looking at or have already adopted a cloud hosted environment for > delivering applications to their students. > > Python is being used in many schools/colleges in the country - but I do > not know how it can be delivered other than a local install on a students > machine so that students can run it and debug it locally. > > Hi Tim -- Kirby here. I recommend PythonAnywhere.com and use it with my students. It gives them the ability to create a free account in the cloud and to send files to it from a local machine. There's even the ability to deploy a single public-facing web app. My demo app is at thekirbster.pythonanywhere.com with source code available here: https://github.com/4dsolutions/Python5/blob/master/mfg.py In addition, PythonAnywhere allows students to choose a mentor, who will be able to look over their shoulder in the sense of sharing files. There's even real time console sharing. I'm quite excited by the technology and use it for code school work. > Is there an equivalent of a web-App that allows for python code > development and debug on a chrome book for example? > Or any cloud derivative. > As long the the local machine has Internet access, there should be no problem using PythonAnywhere, as it shows up in your browser. > > I hope my question is understandable - sorry for my poor description. > > I think the goal at least for code school students is to the laptop be a local development environment, with a cloud stack for remote deployment of the world-readable version. That's if it's to be a running web app that they're working on (our code schoolers wanna be web devs). If the goal is to share source code, not necessarily a running web app, then a github account may be sufficient. PythonAnywhere makes it easy to tie your cloud account to your public git repository. Kirby > Thank you for your help. > > Regards > > Tim Brady > *Subject Advisor **Computing & ICT * > >
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