> Thanks, Michael! I've written up a brief description of the tool I'm looking > for here: > > http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/projects/doctest-quiz.php >
I'm interested in this project as well. Per my day one blog post re Shuttleworth Summit: What Alan and I most agree on is the need for Wikipedia type content to mix with an interactive component. He showed me his recent Javascript implementation of Logo. I'm reminded of our ability to create interactive "labs" in the J language. Python needs a more developed interactive teaching module: show some stuff, give students a command line, show more stuff, and so on. [ http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2006/04/shuttleworth-summit-day-one.html ] The J language lab is a very useful, yet simple tool, allowing teachers to write interactive scripts that show J, then turn control over to students, show more J and so on. Having labs run in a browser would be a double plus ("server side" might just mean on the local classroom server -- no broadband need apply). Here's an example of a J Lab as it appears to the author. Students running it will get a friendlier "chatty shell" that walks them through a series of exercises about turtle graphics: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/BrianSchott/code/turtleGraphics/lab Kirby > and a briefer launchpad spec here: > > https://launchpad.net/products/cando/+spec/doctest-quiz > > Paul Carduner is interested in working on it, and I'm looking into submitting > it as a Summer of Code project. I'll keep you posted. > > jeff > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
