Eric's idea sounds doable based on what I already know. I'll take a look at Joe's suggestion as well.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]>wrote: > I think the best is if you can get individuals to install their own > copy of J. Then they have something to take away and that is good. > > A web route is to get a free cloud machine (amazon whatever) and > install J. Then ssh to the machine and run a script to create 30 > (whatever) JHS instances with ports 65001, 65002, .... In your class > assign each member a number and then they use their browser to browse > to IP:650xx/jijx and you are in business. If something gets messed up > for a student, you can just give them a new porrt to use. > > This means each student has their own J session. > > They would all access the same prepared script you set up. Depending > on what you want to do do this may be enough. Or you may want to tweak > system folders at startup so, for example, each port has ~temp as > .../temp/port. > > Doing this the first time would take a bit of work and have a learning > curve. The second time would be trivial and it would be a great set of > steps to share with the community. > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote: > > One potential problem with JHS is that the state is shared across all > > users (as far as I know). So you'd need to have them work in their own > > locale or something. > > > > Perhaps you can just bring a laptop and open up JHS for the students > > to use? If you were concerned about security, you might want to run it > > in a sandbox. > > > > I've used http://www.vagrantup.com/ as a easy way to share and get > > development environments up and running (and sandbox). You can run > > that yourself (or any other emulator) to create your sandbox with JHS. > > > > If that's the path you went, then it might be cool to have a > > preconfigured image to share with students too. > > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Note that I've been operating a batch of AWS linux machines (working > with > >> Skip). This is the EC2 service, and I've been using 64 bit debian > instances. > >> > >> That said, there's a variety of providers of machines (other than AWS - > >> hostgator, linode, digitalocean, ...), with different billing and > support > >> models. It all depends on what you want to achieve, and how you want to > do > >> it. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> -- > >> Raul > >> > >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Jan-Pieter Jacobs < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Another option would be installing J on a linux machine, and let your > >>> students log in using SSH. But this is of course CLI-only, unless they > have > >>> an X server installed (Xming is recommendable for windows). > >>> > >>> Kind regards, > >>> > >>> Jan-Pieter > >>> On 23 Mar 2014 17:36, "Skip Cave" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > Amazon Web Services has a free virtual micro instance you can use. I > >>> think > >>> > it is free with a new account for a year. After a year, it costs 2 > cents > >>> an > >>> > hour, 48 cents a day, $15/mo, $174/year. > >>> > > >>> > Other more powerful options are available, but they don't have the > first > >>> > free year. > >>> > > >>> > Here is AWS pricing for virtual machies: > >>> > http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > Skip Cave > >>> > Cave Consulting LLC > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Devon McCormick < > [email protected] > >>> > >wrote: > >>> > > >>> > > I'm in a teaching workshop in which we should present an example > lesson > >>> > > plan at the end. I'd like to do a J example but really need to > allow > >>> > > people to do hands-on usage and it's probably too much to ask for > >>> > everyone > >>> > > to install J but, if there were a website to which I could direct > >>> people, > >>> > > it's much less of an obstacle. > >>> > > > >>> > > Does anyone have the facilities to set up something like thiis? > Is it > >>> > > possible to use one of the free cloud services to do this? > >>> > > > >>> > > -- > >>> > > Devon McCormick, CFA > >>> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >>> > > > >>> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >>> > > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >>> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
