An educational site written in Python (from YCombinator's RFS)

[Ned Batchelder]

On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 2:13:42 AM UTC-4, Cai Gengyang wrote:
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> EDUCATION
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> If we can fix education, we can eventually do everything else on this list.
> The first attempts to use technology to fix education have focused on using the Internet to distribute traditional content to a wider audience. This is good, but the Internet is a fundamentally different medium and capable of much more.
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> Solutions that combine the mass scale of technology with one-on-one in-person interaction are particularly interesting to us.
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> This may not require a "breakthrough" technology in the classical sense, but at a minimum it will require very new ways of doing things.
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> I want to create such a site using Python. What are the various steps I need to take to create such a site ? This is a big project, but one that is worth doing ... Any suggestions / help appreciated ? Thanks alot


If you want to join an existing project, Open edX is open-source Python/Django, and powers edx.org and 250 other sites around the world.  I'm guessing it isn't quite what this proposal is getting at, but the description here is very vague, so I'm not sure what they are getting at.

http://open.edx.org if you want to take a look.

--Ned.