[Edu-sig] Two new projects of potential interest

[Nicholas H.Tollervey]

These are great pieces of work. I'm in the process of integrating
friendly-tracebacks into Mu.

N.

On 10/05/2019 23:49, Andre Roberge wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> For the past few weeks I have been working on two projects that may
> potentially be of interest to you.
> 
> The first project is called friendly-traceback. I assume that, at one
> point or another, everyone on this list has taught beginners who were
> totally confused by Python tracebacks.  Friendly-traceback aims to
> greatly reduce this confusion.  As a bonus for international users,
> friendly-traceback has been designed from the start to be translatable;
> currently, only two languages are supported (English and French).  There
> is much more to be done, but it is usable right now. You can find the
> documentation
> at https://aroberge.github.io/friendly-traceback-docs/docs/html/
> 
> Friendly-traceback has been carved out of a larger project named
> AvantPy. For English speakers, AvantPy can be thought of as standard
> Python + friendly-traceback  + a few additional keywords that aim to
> reduce (slightly) the learning curve for some concepts.  For non-English
> speakers, AvantPy makes it possible to run a "Python dialect" where
> Python's keywords are replaced by keywords written in a different
> language; currently there is a French and a Spanish version, both in
> draft forms.  You can find the documentation
> at https://aroberge.github.io/avantpy/docs/html/index.html
> 
> Both project are usable *right now*, even though they are admittedly
> incomplete. 
> 
> I would very much appreciate it if you could have a look at them, either
> just by reading the documentation or, even better, by trying to run the
> code, and give me some feedback. Of course, if you want to do more than
> simply give feedback and actually want to contribute some code samples
> or additional translations, that would certainly be welcome as well! :-)
> 
> Pythonically yours,
> 
> André Roberge
> 
> 
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