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Smolts: A pedagogical IDE for a teaching language

• gdevenyi 25d ago
  Who remembers turning and object oriented turing from the university of Waterloo?
• quietraster 25d ago
  two years of polishing a teaching ide is dedication. what made you build your own instead of leaning on somethi
  • tonyg 22d ago
    Wellll not two years, no, a couple-few weeks of initial work and then, embarrassingly, it sat idle for two years. As to why: at least in part because one of the best ways to learn is to do.
• mccoyb 25d ago
  If only our interactions with "non-teaching" languages were anything like this ... or humane, in the lineage of Bret Victor, etc. Also shout out @tonyg for Syndicate! I keep coming back to it -- a beautiful piece of PL work.
  • tonyg 22d ago
    Thanks so much!
• xenonite 25d ago
  The go-back debugger is great, I am providing this in my educational Python IDE here: https://primopy.com https://primopy.com
  • tonyg 22d ago
    This looks great!
• gremlinunderway 25d ago
  I will never understand the point of teaching languages that aren't actually used. To me it just seems like its intended to be easier for the teacher rather than being beneficial for the student. Python is already a super simple language and has enough functional plus OOP orientation that it can be used to showcase every concept and still be useful for the student. Completely pointless...