Hi,

I observed (helped out at) a SWC workshop once where RStudio was used for 
teaching. The big advantage was that the students could see the previous 
commands in the top left part (frame). This helped a lot in allowing students 
to catch up. The IPython notebook allows this to a certain extent, but with big 
output, an instructor needs to scroll up to show students that want to review 
previous commands.

I agree that the Rodeo feels in beta-stage, but I think it has great potential.

In fact, I wish someone would make such an application to help teach the shell, 
where any output that is more lines than the terminal screen is long, makes 
previous commands get out of view...

Lex

On 27 Apr 2015, at 19:51, Ted Hart 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

I briefly tried out Rodeo over the weekend.   It seems like a less polished 
version of RStudio Server.  I suppose one major selling point is that it could 
be installed on a server and then students could connect to the server.  Then 
instructors wouldn't face the vagaries of installing different versions, 
libraries, etc...  But I personally think it lacks many of the features of a 
full powered IDE (breakpoints, debugging etc...) but no serious advantage over 
iPython notebooks.  Personally I'd rather teach in an iPython notebook, but if 
an instructor really wanted a clone of RStudio, this is a pretty good 
approximation.

T

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:31 AM Jason Moore 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
What makes Rodeo better or different than all of the other IDEs that support 
Python?


Jason
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Daniel Chen 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hello everyone:

Yhat just released a python IDE called Rodeo.  It's like rstudio for python.  
I'll be using this for the next few days, but so far I like it better than the 
notebook (at least for exploring data).

I remember Greg being jealous of Rstudio has a teaching tool.  Maybe we have a 
Python equivalent?

http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/introducing-rodeo.html


- Dan

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