[Edu-sig] more about Codesters (in browser Python learning environment)

[kirby urner]

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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