[Edu-sig] Re: Module for writing a new type of exercises for programming tutorials

2019-08-05 Thread kirby urner
What are the major sticking points with Jupyter on a mobile device? > > Seems like the Github Jupyter rendering engine sends out CSS @media queries to detect client format, and if your device below a specific size, the sever sends you raw JSON instead (the notebook sans rendering). With any art

[Edu-sig] Re: Module for writing a new type of exercises for programming tutorials

2019-08-05 Thread Wes Turner
On Monday, August 5, 2019, kirby urner wrote: > > > Like many contemporary authors and curriculum developers, I've been > introducing Jupyter Notebooks as a good mix of skills, as you have both the > Python and the web page design aspects. Again, none of this works well on > a smartphone. >

[Edu-sig] Re: Module for writing a new type of exercises for programming tutorials

2019-08-05 Thread Wes Turner
nbgrader and/or jupyter-edx-grader-xblock may be useful for your use cases as well. It's a good idea to run Python code in containers or in JS in the browser. JupyterHub helps with running code in containers. TLJH (The Littlest JupyterHub) is one way to host Jupyter notebooks with nbgrader for

[Edu-sig] Re: Module for writing a new type of exercises for programming tutorials

2019-08-05 Thread kirby urner
Thank you for your contribution Claude. I have been looking at your github site and eyeballing the source code. You make a good point about smartphones being so different a device, because of their small format, than even a laptop computer. Students with only phone experience feel unprepared for

[Edu-sig] Module for writing a new type of exercises for programming tutorials

2019-08-05 Thread Claude SIMON
Hello, everyone. I am in contact with teachers who will have to teach programming at the beginning of the next school year. It's going to be as part of a mandatory computer course, so they're going to be dealing with students who aren't necessarily very motivated. They are therefore looking