Seems the etherpad API doesn't let you write: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/HTTP-API
:( On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Justin Kitzes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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