[Tutor] writing python on the web

[Amit Saha]

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 30/09/13 13:49, roberto wrote:
>>
>> Hi, my school is considering a massive shift to Chromebooks. I've to
>> carefully think about how could the students go on writing their python
>> programs on the web.
>
>
> It's not just Python it's any kind of program.
> There are a few online interpreters around but if you are
> planning on teaching computing, a ChromeBook or any other cloud
> based tool is going to make it hard if not impossible to teach effectively.
>
> You maybe need to feed that back to your administration before they
> seriously damage their students prospects and their schools reputation.
> They may be slightly cheaper (and we are only talking about $50 each!)
> but they are very limited devices.
>
> If you are forced to go down that route consider finding an online terminal
> emulator and get the students to use it to access a server someplace where
> you can install Python and any other environment you need. That's still
> limiting things to text but better than an online interpreter IMHO.

I am +1 in agreeing with Alan on all the above points. If your school
really wants to teach programming, nothing other than a "real" computer
should be the first preference.

That said, considering Alan's last point, if you must, take a look at
https://www.nitrous.io . I haven't used it much, but they give you
terminal access, etc. May help.

-Amit.




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