[Microbit-Python] Python editor designs from Steve

[Michael]

Talking about presenting work, digital whiteboard mode?

Big fonts, etc?

Our team uses pivotal tracker at work, and one of the useful things about
that is a digital whiteboard mode - makes every thing just easier to see at
a distance. It's "just" a CSS change/toggle, but it does make life a lot
nicer.



Michael.

On 27 October 2015 at 12:58, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org> wrote:

> Fear not David, we have a white background version too.
>
> Another thought is some means of resizing the text to make it
> bigger/smaller depending on who's looking at it (useful if you want to
> present your work).
>
> N.
>
> On 27/10/15 12:02, David Whale wrote:
> > Looks cool, but...
> >
> > Can we have a user settable option to make the background white and the
> > text the same colours as used by IDLE? Also for UX accessibility
> > guideline compliance, you may have to provide either an alternative
> > colour scheme, or a way for users to configure the colour scheme to
> > their linking, specifically supporting at least one 'high contrast'
> > scheme for visually impaired users.
> >
> > It's really hard for visually impaired people to read that black
> > background design, to be honest.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > ___________________________________________________________
> > David Whale, B.Sc (Hons), MIET
> > *Software Engineer and IET Schools Liaison Officer, Essex*
> >
> > email:  dwhale at theiet.org <mailto:dwhale at theiet.org>
> > twitter: @whaleygeek
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> >
> > Co-author of the new book "Adventures in Minecraft"
> > <http://amzn.to/ZGfxZG> - lets get kids coding!
> >
> >
> > On 27 October 2015 at 10:47, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org
> > <mailto:ntoll at ntoll.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Folks,
> >
> >     Here is a link to a screenie of Steve's current design for the Python
> >     editor (I've added Steve to this list):
> >
> >     http://ntoll.org/static/images/py-editor-dark.png
> >
> >     Apart from a couple of textual changes I've already fed back to
> Steve, I
> >     think we're definitely on the right track. If you remember, Steve was
> >     asked to create something that looked "Pythonic", would appeal to
> 11yo
> >     kids and be simple to use. It should also look "cool" (for some
> >     definition of "cool") in a way that complements the BBC micro:bit's
> >     design.
> >
> >     The next steps are to send this to the BBC branding and UX compliance
> >     teams to ensure we're meeting the partnership requirements. Once
> this is
> >     done we can apply the styling to the existing editor and get the
> thing
> >     into TouchDevelop.
> >
> >     Yay! Many thanks and congratulations to Steve for such amazing work.
> >
> >     Feedback welcome..!
> >
> >     Best wishes,
> >
> >     Nicholas.
> >
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