Thank you for sharing the playground Donald! Great stuff! On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:52 PM Donald Pinckney via swift-users < swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
> Hi Erica, and others with feedback, > > Thanks for your positive feedback about my playground. Top of my list for > critical features would be what Loïc mentioned, some mathematical notation > support inside the playground markdown. Currently I embedded PDFs which I > rendered using LaTeX, but it would be amazing to perhaps have native LaTeX > support in playgrounds. > > Erica, > I really like all your suggestions, and I can certainly feel how they > could contribute to creating very interactive learning resources. I'm not > quite understanding the 3rd bullet, but I'm sure it's just as great of a > suggestion as the others ;). > > Donald Pinckney > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jan 6, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Erica Sadun <er...@ericasadun.com> wrote: > > > > Don, > > > > I love your playground. This highlights a few areas where I really would > love to see some enhancements from the playground team. Here are a few off > the top of my head. My actual list is longer: > > > > * Your students should be able to have an appropriate input and > submission component that isn't compiled -- answering in freeform language > to the questions. > > * Playgrounds need a "reset" button that enable any tweaks to return to > a pristine state for starting over. > > * Playgrounds should offer a "compute this outside" option, that allows > you to add code *inside* the pages but have them computed outside. For > example in your playground there's the harmonic oscillator, and a few other > number-crunchy stop points. > > * Playgrounds should be able to integrate video and audio snippets so > it's not just all text text text for lessons > > * Playgrounds need support for grammar / spelling tests and writing > tools. > > * Playgrounds should also include annotation tools (highlighting, notes) > similar to what we see in iBooks as well as snippets/note support for > collecting items (both text and code) between lessons > > > > I could go on but I think you get the idea of how great it is to see > this kind of development and how far it could be pushed for even better > teaching/learning experiences. > > > > -- Erica > > p.s. I have a book on playgrounds in iBooks, if you want to ping me > off-list, I'll send you a promo code > > > > > > > >> On Jan 6, 2016, at 11:32 AM, Tom Sheffler via swift-users < > swift-users@swift.org> wrote: > >> > >> Thanks for sharing this playground! I hadn’t seen anything quite like > it, and it’s illuminating some of the possibilities. > >> > >>> On Jan 5, 2016, at 10:42 PM, Donald Pinckney via swift-users < > swift-users@swift.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi all, > >>> Personally, I love Swift, and I am curious to see if it will be used > in educational settings, not necessarily even CS education. As something > of an experiment to see how Swift could currently look in education, I > coded a Swift playground (sorry, very Mac specific right now!) that is a > rewriting of a lab activity we did in my 3rd quarter of physics. For those > who are interested in educational aspects of Swift, and have a Mac to run > this code, feel free to check out my attached playground, and give any sort > of feedback, with respect to either the code or more philosophically where > you think Swift could go with education. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Donald Pinckney > >>> > >>> <Schrödinger.playground> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> swift-users mailing list > >>> swift-users@swift.org > >>> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> swift-users mailing list > >> swift-users@swift.org > >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users > > > _______________________________________________ > swift-users mailing list > swift-users@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users >
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