Just adding to the link Ben posted. I used that line in a tool I made a few years ago, if anyone is curious to see it in context. This tool creates a self-updating html page of the history, so users don't have to manually refresh the page. it also doesn't auto-scroll them back to the top of the page.
https://github.com/JorySchossau/public-history On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Naupaka Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote: > I find things like this really helpful for allowing people to follow along > as you go, and students seem to really appreciate having the record to > download and refer back to. > > A Dropbox public links works well for this too. For R, I usually save the > script somewhere in Dropbox (or other cloud service), and then give the > learners the link to the file. It updates whenever you save, and they can > just refresh their browser to get the up-to-date version. > > For those who haven't come across it yet: when teaching shell and git, > this tip to modify your bash prompt to echo the last line of history to a > text file works really well: > https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/05/instructor-debri > efing-2015-04-28.html > > Best, > Naupaka > > > On 14 Mar 2017, at 9:13, Ben Marwick wrote: > > I just came across this little app, it lets you code locally (for example, >> in RStudio), and when you save it automatically updates a copy of the file >> at public URL: https://github.com/hikarock/casto >> >> It might be useful for keeping a log of live-coding during a SWC workshop. >> >> Looks like it can enable learners to easily access the live-coding file >> on the fly, with the file continuously updated as the instructor saves the >> file during the lessons. >> >> BM >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >
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