[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 152, Issue 5

[Peter Farrell]

Hi, Tim,

Python's online IDEs are a mixed bunch all right. Cloud 9 <https://c9.io>
hosts a pretty professional-looking environment.

For people learning Python I highly recommend Trinket <https://trinket.io>,
not least of all because it's the only one I've found so far on which you
can use Python's "turtle" module, my teaching tool of choice. Being able to
use turtles and Visual Python make creating 2D and 3D graphics pretty easy.

You can also embed the "trinkets" into a webpage, as I've done on mine:
http://www.farrellpolymath.com/code

Hope this helps!

Peter Farrell

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> Hi People
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> I hope you can help. I am interested in the many schools in the UK who are
> looking at or have already adopted a cloud hosted environment for
> delivering applications to their students.
>
> Python is being used in many schools/colleges in the country - but I do not
> know how it can be delivered other than a local install on a students
> machine so that students can run it and debug it locally.
>
> Is there an equivalent of a web-App that allows for python code development
> and debug on a chrome book for example?
> Or any cloud derivative.
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> I hope my question is understandable - sorry for my poor description.
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> Thank you for your help.
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> Regards
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> Tim Brady
> *Subject Advisor **Computing & ICT *
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> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:39 AM, Brady, Tim <tim.brady at pearson.com> wrote:
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> > Hi People
> >
> > I hope you can help. I am interested in the many schools in the UK who
> are
> > looking at or have already adopted a cloud hosted environment for
> > delivering applications to their students.
> >
> > Python is being used in many schools/colleges in the country - but I do
> > not know how it can be delivered other than a local install on a students
> > machine so that students can run it and debug it locally.
> >
> >
> Hi Tim --
>
> Kirby here.
>
> I recommend PythonAnywhere.com and use it with my students.  It gives them
> the ability to create a free account in the cloud and to send files to it
> from a local machine.  There's even the ability to deploy a single
> public-facing web app.
>
> My demo app is at thekirbster.pythonanywhere.com with source code
> available
> here:
>
> https://github.com/4dsolutions/Python5/blob/master/mfg.py
>
> In addition, PythonAnywhere allows students to choose a mentor, who will be
> able to look over their shoulder in the sense of sharing files.
>
> There's even real time console sharing.  I'm quite excited by the
> technology and use it for code school work.
>
>
> > Is there an equivalent of a web-App that allows for python code
> > development and debug on a chrome book for example?
> > Or any cloud derivative.
> >
>
> As long the the local machine has Internet access, there should be no
> problem using PythonAnywhere, as it shows up in your browser.
>
>
> >
> > I hope my question is understandable - sorry for my poor description.
> >
> >
> I think the goal at least for code school students is to the laptop be a
> local development environment, with a cloud stack for remote deployment of
> the world-readable version.
>
> That's if it's to be a running web app that they're working on (our code
> schoolers wanna be web devs).
>
> If the goal is to share source code, not necessarily a running web app,
> then a github account may be sufficient.
>
> PythonAnywhere makes it easy to tie your cloud account to your public git
> repository.
>
> Kirby
>
>
>
> > Thank you for your help.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tim Brady
> > *Subject Advisor **Computing & ICT *
> >
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