[IPython-dev] Using IPython notebooks to teach Python
Sébastien Hinderer
Sebastien.Hinderer at inria.fr
Fri Aug 22 02:48:02 EDT 2014
Dear Moritz,
Manyh thanks for your prompt and helpfll response!
> Teaching with the notebook has been discussed quite often. Search the
> mailing archives for more information. Of course, some of what has been
> said there is out-dated now. If you have the time, my recommendation would
> be to wait for IPython 3.0 which will come with a multi-user notebook
> server that should be secure to use. If you don't have the time then take a
> look at my repository:
> https://github.com/Midnighter/Notebooks-Launcher.
Well unless iPython 3.0 is released very, very soon, I think we don't
have the time to wait for it so I'll definitely have a look to your
repository, thanks! Is there any planned date for the release of iPython
3.0?
> I'm afraid it was written for Python 2 and I've not used it in a while but
> it lets you create user accounts for each student and then runs a separate
> password protected notebook server for each student in a specified
> directory.
This seems a very interesting starting point for expeimenting!
> You can also use it to push and pull material to/from students'
> accounts. Naturally, you need su privileges to run it.
Sure. I presume it will be the sme with iPython 3.0? Will the server
have to be run as root and then, once a user logs in, the serverwill
continue running as that user? So does it mean that users will need to
have a full Unix account on the server?
> There's also https://github.com/UnataInc/ipydra which does a similar thing
> but does not allow separate user accounts for each student. I talked to the
> author about joining efforts at some point but never got around to it.
Will have a look to that, too! Thanks!
> I hope these starting points help you out.
They definitely do, thanks.
Any comment on the AppArmor aspect would also be helpful.
Best wishes and thanks again,
Sébastien.
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