On a related note, has anyone tried teaching with the Jupyter bash kernel? Jez
On 5 November 2016 at 13:46, Fangohr H. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nick and all, > > I love live coding, and the students enjoy it, too. I often use Spyder and > have longer code snippets in the editor window, then press F5 to get the > objects that this code defines into the namespace of the prompt, then use > the prompt to play around with the defined objects interactively. Or > develop small code snippets at the prompt, and when they work, copy them > into a python file (either in the Spyder editor, or some other editor). > > Ideally, you have the code you edit and the window in which you execute > the console visible at the same time. Any ‘switching’ (so that one > disappears) makes it very hard for the audience to follow - they want to be > able to read and process all the information at their own pace. > > The Jupyter Notebook is also cool for something like this, but I generally > hesitate to use it with complete beginners as it introduces additional > complexity. > > Best wishes, > > Hans > > > > > On 5 Nov 2016, at 12:43, nick james <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've had a quick look through the archive looking for killer objections > to the idea of editing a file, say scratch.py, then switching to a > console window and doing 'python scratch.py'? > > This MO doesn't seem to be deprecated or recommended; I'd be interested > to hear comments or pointers to discussions I've missed. > > Nick J > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:Discuss@ > lists.software-carpentry.org> > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss > > > > Hans Fangohr > University of Southampton > > phone: 023 80598345 > email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > www: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~fangohr > blog: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~fangohr/blog > @ProfCompMod: https://twitter.com/profcompmod > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss > -- The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way" - Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (att.) Jez Cope http://erambler.co.uk/ http://twitter.com/jezcope
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