With regard to bullet 3, playgrounds vastly improve performance when you move code into Sources: http://ericasadun.com/2015/03/16/swift-vroom-vroom-fast-playgrounds/ <http://ericasadun.com/2015/03/16/swift-vroom-vroom-fast-playgrounds/> (but then you can't see the code or tweak it *in* the playground)
-- Erica > On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Donald Pinckney <djpinck...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > > Hi Erica, and others with feedback, > > Thanks for your positive feedback about my playground. Top of my list for > critical features would be what Loïc mentioned, some mathematical notation > support inside the playground markdown. Currently I embedded PDFs which I > rendered using LaTeX, but it would be amazing to perhaps have native LaTeX > support in playgrounds. > > Erica, > I really like all your suggestions, and I can certainly feel how they could > contribute to creating very interactive learning resources. I'm not quite > understanding the 3rd bullet, but I'm sure it's just as great of a suggestion > as the others ;). > > Donald Pinckney > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 6, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Erica Sadun <er...@ericasadun.com> wrote: >> >> Don, >> >> I love your playground. This highlights a few areas where I really would >> love to see some enhancements from the playground team. Here are a few off >> the top of my head. My actual list is longer: >> >> * Your students should be able to have an appropriate input and submission >> component that isn't compiled -- answering in freeform language to the >> questions. >> * Playgrounds need a "reset" button that enable any tweaks to return to a >> pristine state for starting over. >> * Playgrounds should offer a "compute this outside" option, that allows you >> to add code *inside* the pages but have them computed outside. For example >> in your playground there's the harmonic oscillator, and a few other >> number-crunchy stop points. >> * Playgrounds should be able to integrate video and audio snippets so it's >> not just all text text text for lessons >> * Playgrounds need support for grammar / spelling tests and writing tools. >> * Playgrounds should also include annotation tools (highlighting, notes) >> similar to what we see in iBooks as well as snippets/note support for >> collecting items (both text and code) between lessons >> >> I could go on but I think you get the idea of how great it is to see this >> kind of development and how far it could be pushed for even better >> teaching/learning experiences. >> >> -- Erica >> p.s. I have a book on playgrounds in iBooks, if you want to ping me >> off-list, I'll send you a promo code >> >> >> >>> On Jan 6, 2016, at 11:32 AM, Tom Sheffler via swift-users >>> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for sharing this playground! I hadn’t seen anything quite like it, >>> and it’s illuminating some of the possibilities. >>> >>>> On Jan 5, 2016, at 10:42 PM, Donald Pinckney via swift-users >>>> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> Personally, I love Swift, and I am curious to see if it will be used in >>>> educational settings, not necessarily even CS education. As something of >>>> an experiment to see how Swift could currently look in education, I coded >>>> a Swift playground (sorry, very Mac specific right now!) that is a >>>> rewriting of a lab activity we did in my 3rd quarter of physics. For >>>> those who are interested in educational aspects of Swift, and have a Mac >>>> to run this code, feel free to check out my attached playground, and give >>>> any sort of feedback, with respect to either the code or more >>>> philosophically where you think Swift could go with education. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Donald Pinckney >>>> >>>> <Schrödinger.playground> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> swift-users mailing list >>>> swift-users@swift.org >>>> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> swift-users mailing list >>> swift-users@swift.org >>> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users >>
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