On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote: > On 30/09/13 13:49, roberto wrote: >> >> Hi, my school is considering a massive shift to Chromebooks. I've to >> carefully think about how could the students go on writing their python >> programs on the web. > > > It's not just Python it's any kind of program. > There are a few online interpreters around but if you are > planning on teaching computing, a ChromeBook or any other cloud > based tool is going to make it hard if not impossible to teach effectively. > > You maybe need to feed that back to your administration before they > seriously damage their students prospects and their schools reputation. > They may be slightly cheaper (and we are only talking about $50 each!) > but they are very limited devices. > > If you are forced to go down that route consider finding an online terminal > emulator and get the students to use it to access a server someplace where > you can install Python and any other environment you need. That's still > limiting things to text but better than an online interpreter IMHO.
I am +1 in agreeing with Alan on all the above points. If your school really wants to teach programming, nothing other than a "real" computer should be the first preference. That said, considering Alan's last point, if you must, take a look at https://www.nitrous.io . I haven't used it much, but they give you terminal access, etc. May help. -Amit. -- http://echorand.me _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
