That looks really nice Kirby, thanks for sharing it, I didn't know about it, and we're always doing workshops for kids or beginners, could help a little bit with it.

Also, we're always looking to improve platforms for our own teaching. A couple of months ago we released a free Jupyter Lab environment for our students, in case you want to check it out (feedback greatly appreciated): https://notebooks.ai

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 6:47 PM kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:

I've posted quite a few times to edu-sig about Codesters, an in-browser JavaScript platform (based on Skulpt) that runs a reduced Python, but with added features.  Cool learning environment!

I've just uploaded another teaching Youtube, with a very live-demo flavor i.e. the goal changes slightly as new strategies get adopted.  However, there's measurable progress, as measured by me, the talking head.

https://youtu.be/0GYLToWnhI4
Season Changer in Codesters ( < 8 mins)

My eventual project, which I'm hoping the whole class will engage in (not each working solo, but as a team), puts you in an 8x8 "chessboard" where the arrow keys take you from square to square, and each square is a background image. 

That's a simple framework.  You may then imagine simple games such as Buried Treasure based on this simple infrastructure.  A matrix of hexagon-pentagons on a sphere?  That would be for another classroom and platform. :-D

Codesters does implement the Turtle with penup, pendown, the directional commands, so is in many ways another doorway into Logo-style 2D graphics.  It has a physics engine, with bouncy walls and gravity.  Go crazy!  Fun world!

Again, don't think of Codesters as striving to be a Python3.  It's more Python2 flavored and is a stepping stone, an instructive environment. 

Here in the education sphere, we get to deal with (and even design) such things. :-D  Many of us here have been trailblazers, still are.  Yay us!

Kirby


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