more about Codesters (in browser Python learning environment)
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
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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notebooks.ai looks very professional Santiago! You're making Jupyter Notebooks really easy to share. You must be on the Jupyter Notebooks in Education list? jupyter-education@googlegroups.com We have some overlap with edu-sig in terms of subscribers. BTW, I was a talking head in Houston, Texas yesterday early morning, two time zones distant, talking to high schoolers in a library about Python in the Workforce (their choice of title). There's a company called Nepris that serves as a go between, matching up people in industry with various classrooms. I certainly gave Jupyter Notebooks a lot of attention in that presentation. I didn't learn this was Texas (I was thinking Illinois) until the end. Had I known, I might have mentioned Enthought, an important company in I-Python's evolution. This was on zoom.us, which lets me jump from window to window showing 'em stuff. The talking head is in the corner. I can see them too. Speaking of Codesters and Anaconda stack both, I went on to make a second Youtube today. This one goes back and forth between Codesters and Spyder, hinting at ways we might take a middle / junior high school class to a next higher level. https://youtu.be/6wMADmMx1lo (Python: Humanities + STEM) FYI, I have similarly themed Youtubes back in 2017, e.g. https://youtu.be/Iptjjxrvyhk (Python after Codesters) Kirby
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 9:37 PM kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
BTW, I was a talking head in Houston, Texas yesterday early morning, two time zones distant, talking to high schoolers in a library about Python in the Workforce (their choice of title).
There's a company called Nepris that serves as a go between, matching up people in industry with various classrooms.
I certainly gave Jupyter Notebooks a lot of attention in that presentation.
If anyone wants to track this down (my talking head appearance in Houston), here's a link: http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2019/03/python-in-workforce.html The Nepris machinery is behind the blog and takes awhile to furnish the video in thumbnail. Eventually it works. Kirby
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