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Yeah, that example is a placeholder; we plan on replacing it with something awesome. Thanks!

• reustle 14y ago
  Replace it with a try-python style interactive shell!
  • StavrosK 14y ago
    That would be fantastic, and pretty doable, I would think.
    • munki 14y ago
      Even better if there was a little code like in the example already in there... (the best of both worlds)
      • StavrosK 14y ago
        Oh, that's what I meant, yes. Have the code as it is there, but the user can keep going.
  • daGrevis 14y ago
    This.
  • caioariede 14y ago
    +1 for an interactive shell. Something like http://repl.it/languages/Python http://repl.it/languages/Python :)
    • brownbat 14y ago
      Cool! I got as far as: import os for filename in os.walk('/'): print(filename) before realizing I should probably stop kicking stuff out of curiosity. What are the dangers of dropping a python interpreter on a site, what are good guidelines to secure it?
  • thebigkick 14y ago
    +1 to this. I was drawn to Code Academy because I could immediately start playing around with code on the home page. (At least it used to be like that. Not sure anymore.)
• Symmetry 14y ago
  I'm sorry to say that using the same sentence to reply to different comments four times in a short period seems to have tripped YC's spam detectors.
  • jacobian 14y ago
    Brilliant.
• mercurial 14y ago
  I'd suggest improving the colour scheme of the code window, dark green on dark grey background is not very legible. Maybe steal some colors from the Sphinx doc colour scheme?
• Mahn 14y ago
  Ah, that explains it, I was about to post "wow, this code snippet does a pretty poor job at convincing me to learn Python" :-)
• jcampbell1 14y ago
  The problem is using Courier, not the example. Try 'Monaco, Consolas, mono'