<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Randy Baxley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:randy7771026@gmail.com" target="_blank">randy7771026@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I am sort of plus 1 and minus one on that.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ok...</div><div> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"> The EdX platform seemed ok but the 6.0 lecturers put me to sleep.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>
The course - any particular course is not the same as the delivery and development platform, you realize...</div><div>(don't know what you mean by "the 6.0 lecturers...")</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"> I find the testing of student's functions interesting even when the testing process fails working code because all possible solutions were not tested.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The platform doesn't provide testing of student functions / code, the courseware author does.</div>
<div>Again, I'm not sure if you're thinking in terms of the underlying system for delivery, and how it facilitates (where it does) for course authors to design their (basically) django apps to test student homework.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example, why would anyone test "all possible solutions" of code ... _ever_?</div><div><br></div><div>For courseware, the solution has little to do with it being a django app underneath: you can lint the language (enforce certain style guidelines as part of grading), you can run unit and interface tests on the turned in assignments to ensure that functionality is achieved; you can look at code structure and size (programmatically). These are interesting challenges in delivering MOOCs, but they are not about the edx django underpinnings.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yarkot1@gmail.com" target="_blank">yarkot1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>All of edx (Stanfird, Harvard,MIT) is a at core a big django solution.</p>
<p>Would people be interested in hearing some basics, overview of that?<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 28, 2013 10:17 PM, "Randy Baxley" <<a href="mailto:randy7771026@gmail.com" target="_blank">randy7771026@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">+1 for a Django talk<div><br></div><div>I am stopped in chapter six of The Django Book while I prepare myself mentally to tackle tarbell, virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper.</div><div><br></div><div>I have enjoyed several MOOCs while learning basic Python.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Jason Wirth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wirth.jason@gmail.com" target="_blank">wirth.jason@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I think the DjangoCon <span></span>focus is a good idea.<div>+1 for anything on that.</div><div><br></div>Awhile back I attended (Randy from Chipy did too) the "Global Meetup Day" for Udacity, a MOOC that uses Python almost exclusively. I'd be willing to give a lightning talk about Python/MOOC/continuing education stuff.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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