Hi Arjun, thank you for your comments and ideas. Generally, I do agree with what you wrote. (I've already replied to you privately with some additional comments and questions.)
Martin On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Arjun Krishna <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > Hey, I was going through the ideas for GSOC '15 and the Learning > platform for Overpass API really caught my eye. I have some experience > in web-development mostly Django and some Javascript and some of it's > brilliant libraries along with the usual HTML,CSS . > I had some ideas on how this can be implemented, here they go. > > The idea for teh learning platform mentioned something like codeacademy. > The process of learning in code academy involves this > 1.You signup for a course and find a bunch of chapters in that course. > 2.You can go chapter by chapter or skip to the chapter you want. > 3.Then they teach you a little by showing an example and a few > lines explaining it or just the explanation. > 4.Then you have to solve a problem , they check if you solved it > by looking at your output (console logs in javascript) > 5.You move on to other chapters. > Code academy is great if you want to learn something from top to > bottom, however if you just want to get a small doubt cleared > codeacademy is not the place. > I think this is where something like w3schools comes in, they're > great to use when you have to just clear up a small detail about > javascript or something else. > One of the major differences between codeacademy and w3schools is > that w3schools does not validate your answer, there is no problem to > solve in w3schools just examples. In code academy there are mostly > problems to solve. > Many users may want to start from scratch to learn the overpass api > and many of them may just want to clear a small doubt up. > I suggest that something like w3schools but also with dedicated > courses like codeacademy would be great(Best of both worlds). > Coming towards coding up such a platform one of the main questions > is whether to use overpass turbo or not. > Overpass turbo is great for building queries and running them , > however testing the output obtained in order to ensure that the user > solved the problem might be hard(Or atleast thats what I think , > not too sure, have been thinking of ways to use it and develop over > it) > I suggest that overpass turbo be used when just examples have to > be showcased and use the platform and leafleft.js(To show the output) > when problems are being solved. > > PS: Here's something that I started writing just to familiarize > myself with leaflet.js [http://hastebin.com/exegisukef.xml] , I was > just trying to show the query results on a map(I know it's ugly , > excuse the looks please and it works only for nodes now). > > PPS: My linked in profile , https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=316690794 > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
