That looks really nice Kirby, thanks for sharing it, I didn't know about it, and we're always doing workshops for kids or beginners, could help a little bit with it.
Also, we're always looking to improve platforms for our own teaching. A couple of months ago we released a free Jupyter Lab environment for our students, in case you want to check it out (feedback greatly appreciated): https://notebooks.ai On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 6:47 PM kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've posted quite a few times to edu-sig about Codesters, an in-browser > JavaScript platform (based on Skulpt) that runs a reduced Python, but with > added features. Cool learning environment! > > I've just uploaded another teaching Youtube, with a very live-demo flavor > i.e. the goal changes slightly as new strategies get adopted. However, > there's measurable progress, as measured by me, the talking head. > > https://youtu.be/0GYLToWnhI4 > Season Changer in Codesters ( < 8 mins) > > My eventual project, which I'm hoping the whole class will engage in (not > each working solo, but as a team), puts you in an 8x8 "chessboard" where > the arrow keys take you from square to square, and each square is a > background image. > > That's a simple framework. You may then imagine simple games such as > Buried Treasure based on this simple infrastructure. A matrix of > hexagon-pentagons on a sphere? That would be for another classroom and > platform. :-D > > Codesters does implement the Turtle with penup, pendown, the directional > commands, so is in many ways another doorway into Logo-style 2D graphics. > It has a physics engine, with bouncy walls and gravity. Go crazy! Fun > world! > > Again, don't think of Codesters as striving to be a Python3. It's more > Python2 flavored and is a stepping stone, an instructive environment. > > Here in the education sphere, we get to deal with (and even design) such > things. :-D Many of us here have been trailblazers, still are. Yay us! > > Kirby > > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > -- Santiago Basulto.- Co-founder @ rmotr.com
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