On Thu, 7 May 2015, japuzzo wrote:
A few people asked about that nifty teaching code web thing that I ran (
remotely ) on my Raspberry Pi
Here is the project:
https://googlecreativelab.github.io/coder-projects/
Thanks. I liked it too and I'm going to give it a try.
Seems to only run on the Pi if anyone finds a way to run this another
way, please share.
That looked good to me at first, but the down side is you now need
TWO machines rather than just one: one to run as the server, the other
the client for the student. Unless you can run both on the same Pi,
which is what I'm going to try to do.
But since it runs in the browser it should be possible to extract just
the html/js for the tool and serve it from something else, eg. MAMP,
and perhaps serve a whole class?
I really love the way Google implemented coder that is showing code side
by side with the running project.
That is cool, but I've been doing something similar with secondary
students to teach them JavaScript just by having them edit html/css/js
files with the native editor (Notepad on Windows, TextEdit on a Mac)
and then open the files locally with the browser (just double-click).
No server needed, and it works on all platforms. I have them put the
editor and browser windows side-by-side, which is why the pi-coder
caught my eye.
I actually like the idea of them editing "source" files and looking at the
output locally (it's a browser, but it doesn't have to connect off-site)
to give them the idea that it's something they can do on their own
computer without having to buy a domain name, buy hosting, or be dependent
on someone else's web site, no matter how nice that site might be
(coder.org looks good, KhanAcademy.org is also a good place for kids to
start and also shows source and output side-by-side).
-Eric
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