Hi all, Something else to look into in this regard might be Xiki [1]. I played around with this a bit about a year ago (actually with SublimeXiki [2]) - think of it sort of like a plain text IPython notebook for shell commands and output. Personally I probably wouldn't want to use it for teaching, as I think it's important to teach the tools we expect students to use in their daily workflow - but still might be useful in the right contexts.
Best, Justin [1]: http://xiki.org [2]: https://github.com/lunixbochs/SublimeXiki > On Apr 29, 2015, at 5:21 AM, Naupaka Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all - > > This same issue came up on the discuss list last summer, and one solution > that was proposed was to set the PROMPT_COMMAND variable to echo the last > line of history to a text file in Dropbox. > > export PROMPT_COMMAND="history 1 >> ~/Dropbox/history.txt" > > Then the instructor can give the students a public link to this file and they > can easily follow along just by refreshing their browser. The instructor > doesn't have to do anything extra to get it to work continuously once they > set it up, and once the workshop is over, they can just comment it our of > their bashrc/bash_profile and it stops. This works on Mac/Linux/GitBash. > > I did a little explanation of it on a comment to one of the SWC blog posts a > while back: > http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/02/instructor-debriefing-2015-02-10.html > > I have been using this for the past many workshops I have taught (both for > the shell and for the git lessons) and it is always a huge hit with the > students. I also do a similar thing with hard links to the R files I am > editing during R lessons. > > Best, > Naupaka > > On 29 Apr 2015, at 4:35, Juan Nunez-Iglesias wrote: > >> Lex, >> >> >> >> >> That's a great idea re: bash command history. I thought I could hack >> something together quickly (by following the ~/.bash_history file), but it's >> not trivial to ensure every command is written to that file. =\ Either way, >> that would be a fantastic teaching tool. >> >> >> >> >> Juan. >> >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Lex Nederbragt <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> moorepants.info<http://moorepants.info/> >>> +01 530-601-9791<tel:530-601-9791> >>> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org_______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
