On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 19:12:39 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I suppose an alternative is to set up jupyterhub > > > > https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > > > > and let all your students just access that from a webbrowser. > > Yep, and lots of teachers use services like PythonAnywhere, > trinket.io, and similar, precisely because the only thing the learners > need locally is a web browser. The main downside is that learning that > way isn't quite as transferable a skill, since it completely hides the > code packaging and distribution step. However, it's a good option when > the primary aim is to teach computational skills, and Python is just > the vehicle used for that purpose. > > Software Carpentry starts out with the Anaconda distribution, as it > not only improves the cross-platform UX consistent situation, it also > deals with the external binary dependency problem (at least for the > core set of packages provided either natively or via conda-forge).
And it's quite a large set of core packages there too :-) (disclaimer: I work for Anaconda Inc, though not on the Anaconda distribution) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
