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Show HN: tut, an open platform for programming tutorials

8 points by BenjaminCoe 13y ago

BenjaminCoe 13y ago
For our Node Knockout entry this year, we put together a proof of concept for an idea my friends and I have been kicking around for a while: A package management system for publishing educational tutorials: https://github.com/bcoe/tut https://github.com/bcoe/tut It's a bit rough around the edges, given that we hammered it out in 48 hours, but I think a slick idea :)
mindcrime 13y ago
Hmm... this looks pretty dang interesting. Looking forward to getting into it and playing around. I'm fascinated with better approaches to using computers to help people learn, so this kind of thing really excites me. I haven't explored enough yet to really know if this question even makes sense, but I'll ask anyway... Would this be more of something that would compete with traditional LMS software like Moodle[1] or Sakai[2], or would be more of a complement to an LMS and integrate with that approach somehow? Likewise, any connection between this and SCORM[3] or Tin-Can[4] and a LRS[5]? [1]: http://www.moodle.org http://www.moodle.org [2]: https://sakaiproject.org/ https://sakaiproject.org/ [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORM [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Can_API https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Can_API [5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_Record_Store https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_Record_Store
- vorg 13y ago
  This is a one-month old reddit discussion and article, about something that's no longer true (Groovy's now at number 32, see http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... ). Also, the primary source of the information in the headline is two links away, pointing to a reddit discussion about a jaxenter.com article, that then points to the Tiobe index. The Tiobe index page for the relevant month isn't even archived so that info's no longer reachable.
  - mindcrime 13y ago
    Looks like your reply got attached to the wrong post somehow, but nontheless... what's your point? Is a month old Reddit discussion not potentially worthy of further discussion? So the data has changed, big whopping deal... Tiobe ranks tend to fluctuate, but that Groovy even broke the top 20 at all is significant. HN auto-kills links from jaxenter.com, which is why I didn't link to that. But I'm not somebody who obsesses about the whole "only post original links to the primary source". That's complete bullshit as far as I'm concerned. If a discussion elsewhere adds value through context, insight, or whatever, I say "link to it". shrug
    - vorg 13y ago
      > Tiobe ranks tend to fluctuate, but that Groovy even broke the top 20 at all is significant The only significance is how easy it is for someone to game the Tiobe algorithms. According to [1]: > Groovy, which turned up in the 18th spot last month, slid back down to a number 32 ranking. "After a long discussion with one of the Tiobe index readers, it turned out that the data that is produced by one of the Chinese sites that we track is interpreted incorrectly by our algorithms. So this was a bug," Janssen said. "After we had fixed this bug, Groovy lost much of its ratings." The ratings slip takes Groovy from a 0.658 percent rating last month to 0.393 percent this month. In April 2011, Groovy fell from #25 to #65 in a single month when something similar occurred. I suspect both now and then, someone was just priming up Groovy in the rankings to win a consulting contract for Pivotal. [1] http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/c-pulls-away-java-among-top-programming-languages-230603 http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/c-pulls-a...
      - mindcrime 13y ago
        Could be. Anyway, this is why we have discussions about this stuff, even if it is a bit old. :-) I'm an unabashed Groovy fan myself, and I hope to see it continue to grow, but if it doesn't that's OK... it works amazingly well for me nonetheless.

8 points by BenjaminCoe 13y ago

For our Node Knockout entry this year, we put together a proof of concept for an idea my friends and I have been kicking around for a while: A package management system for publishing educational tutorials: https://github.com/bcoe/tut https://github.com/bcoe/tut It's a bit rough around the edges, given that we hammered it out in 48 hours, but I think a slick idea :)

mindcrime 13y ago

Hmm... this looks pretty dang interesting. Looking forward to getting into it and playing around. I'm fascinated with better approaches to using computers to help people learn, so this kind of thing really excites me. I haven't explored enough yet to really know if this question even makes sense, but I'll ask anyway... Would this be more of something that would compete with traditional LMS software like Moodle[1] or Sakai[2], or would be more of a complement to an LMS and integrate with that approach somehow? Likewise, any connection between this and SCORM[3] or Tin-Can[4] and a LRS[5]? [1]: http://www.moodle.org http://www.moodle.org [2]: https://sakaiproject.org/ https://sakaiproject.org/ [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORM [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Can_API https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Can_API [5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_Record_Store https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_Record_Store

vorg 13y ago
This is a one-month old reddit discussion and article, about something that's no longer true (Groovy's now at number 32, see http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... ). Also, the primary source of the information in the headline is two links away, pointing to a reddit discussion about a jaxenter.com article, that then points to the Tiobe index. The Tiobe index page for the relevant month isn't even archived so that info's no longer reachable.
- mindcrime 13y ago
  Looks like your reply got attached to the wrong post somehow, but nontheless... what's your point? Is a month old Reddit discussion not potentially worthy of further discussion? So the data has changed, big whopping deal... Tiobe ranks tend to fluctuate, but that Groovy even broke the top 20 at all is significant. HN auto-kills links from jaxenter.com, which is why I didn't link to that. But I'm not somebody who obsesses about the whole "only post original links to the primary source". That's complete bullshit as far as I'm concerned. If a discussion elsewhere adds value through context, insight, or whatever, I say "link to it". shrug
  - vorg 13y ago
    > Tiobe ranks tend to fluctuate, but that Groovy even broke the top 20 at all is significant The only significance is how easy it is for someone to game the Tiobe algorithms. According to [1]: > Groovy, which turned up in the 18th spot last month, slid back down to a number 32 ranking. "After a long discussion with one of the Tiobe index readers, it turned out that the data that is produced by one of the Chinese sites that we track is interpreted incorrectly by our algorithms. So this was a bug," Janssen said. "After we had fixed this bug, Groovy lost much of its ratings." The ratings slip takes Groovy from a 0.658 percent rating last month to 0.393 percent this month. In April 2011, Groovy fell from #25 to #65 in a single month when something similar occurred. I suspect both now and then, someone was just priming up Groovy in the rankings to win a consulting contract for Pivotal. [1] http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/c-pulls-away-java-among-top-programming-languages-230603 http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/c-pulls-a...
    - mindcrime 13y ago
      Could be. Anyway, this is why we have discussions about this stuff, even if it is a bit old. :-) I'm an unabashed Groovy fan myself, and I hope to see it continue to grow, but if it doesn't that's OK... it works amazingly well for me nonetheless.