Re: [Discuss] casto: Live coding in browser, using text editor.

2017-03-14 Thread DVD PS
On 14 March 2017 at 16:13, Ben Marwick wrote: > 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. On the conference I organised last week

Re: [Discuss] casto: Live coding in browser, using text editor.

2017-03-14 Thread Jory Schossau
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

Re: [Discuss] casto: Live coding in browser, using text editor.

2017-03-14 Thread Naupaka Zimmerman
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

[Discuss] casto: Live coding in browser, using text editor.

2017-03-14 Thread Ben Marwick
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

[Discuss] spellcheck in jupyter

2017-03-14 Thread Moore, Nathan T
Is there a "standard" way of incorporating spellcheck in jupyter notebook markdown cells? I found a few ad-hoc solutions on the web (calico?, aspell?) - is there a solution that's easy to share in a workshop? Nathan - - - - - - - - - Nathan Moore Professor, Physics Winona State University