Hi everyone, I wanted to ask the SWC community for your feedback on DataJoy ( www.getdatajoy.com), an online Python & R IDE that I've been working on, and which I hope can be useful to teachers. To give you a bit of background, the tech behind this comes from an online LaTeX editor ( www.sharelatex.com) which we ported across to DataJoy to let you collaborate in real-time on Python & R code, and run your code in 'the cloud'. We pretty much did this because it was fun and we could, and then started looking for a real-world problem to solve with it :). The most interest has come from teachers who have used it to quickly set up their students with Python/R and to share work with them. This made me think it might be of interest to SWC. (In hindsight I should have seen this use-case earlier given my involvement with Software Carpentry and seeing first-hand the difficulties involved in getting stuff installed on learners laptops.)
DataJoy isn't a sophisticated IDE, but we've made an effort to make it simple and clear to use, so it's suited to the sort of introductory coding involved in teaching/learning Python and R. I haven't had a chance to teach a workshop using it yet unfortunately, but it's recently got to a position where I'd be confident doing so (it's now stable and capable of doing most things that are needed.) I'm curious to hear any thoughts about it, and also: 1) Is DataJoy something that you can see being useful in teaching software carpentry workshops, compared to say a local IPython notebook? (If you're interested in doing so, please let me know and I'll do everything I can to make sure it goes smoothly.) 2) How we can turn DataJoy into your ideal teaching tool? We've only recently started to think of DataJoy as a teaching aid rather than a general purpose IDE, so we're very open to ideas for the future here! Sorry for the long email, and thanks for any thoughts! James
_______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
