[Edu-sig] Interactive tutorial

Brent Burley Brent.Burley@disney.com
Thu, 07 Jun 2001 15:55:37 -0700


I stumbled onto this today:

TclTutor : Interactive Computer Aided Instruction for Tcl
http://www.msen.com/~clif/TclTutor.html

It has 43 short lessons, each of which presents a discussion, some
sample code that needs fixing, and an output area for running the code. 
The lesson text is formatted with a terseness setting that can be set to
beginner, user, or expert.  The lessons themselves are coded as a
marked-up subset of html.

Does anything like this exist for python?  Would it be useful?  It seems
like it would be fairly easy to create this in python.  The work of
course would be in creating decent lessons; a good starting point might
be to adapt Jeff Elkner's text (presuming the open documentation license
would allow such usage).

	Brent Burley