alexmojaki

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   Better Python tests with inline-snapshot and dirty-equals(pydantic.dev)

   2 points by alexmojaki 8mo ago|0 comments
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   by alexmojaki 3y ago

   You can embed an integrated Jupyter notebook into a Grist spreadsheet: https://github.com/gristlabs/jupyterlite-widget/blob/main/US...
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   by alexmojaki 4y ago

   There is a link to the Table of Contents ( https://futurecoder.io/course/#toc ) in the bar at the top. Is it not easy to notice?
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   by alexmojaki 4y ago

   Thanks. I tried running code but couldn't see any results/output. I was hoping to see `input()` in action. The dev console just logs `{type: 'error', data: '{}', contentType: 'text/json'}`
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   by alexmojaki 4y ago

   This looks amazing, congratulations!
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   by alexmojaki 4y ago

   Thank you, it's really great to hear that you've gone through several pages already and didn't find any problems more significant than this :)
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   by alexmojaki 4y ago

   Awesome! Can you show me what you built?
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   by alexmojaki 4y ago

   > One interactive component that we use heavily that might interest you for futurecoder is what we call an interactive walkthrough: https://www.learncs.online/best#interactive-walkthroughs . It's like a video but pre
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   by alexmojaki 4y ago

   > Sorry if I was unclear but this was in no way a criticism of your excellent product. It is truly fantastic. Thank you! I don't think you were unclear and I didn't read any criticism in your comment, I'm not sure why you
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    Thanks! To run multiple lines of code, use the editor, not the shell. If you only see the shell, it's because it's hidden at the beginning of the course for beginners. See the table of contents ( https://futurecoder.io&#
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    I'll also add that it has been copied and rehosted, with my help. There's a slightly customised French version here: https://futurecoder.forge.aeif.fr/ This version is meant for maximum user privacy. firebase ha
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    Thanks! I'm sure there's lots of good stuff out there but I'm afraid I have no plans to generalise to other programming languages myself. Many of the special magical features of futurecoder are things I specifically built in
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    futurecoder was actually translated to French by three teachers working for the French Ministry of Education to use when teaching the maths/programming subject 'NSI'. I love maths myself but I've made a strong effort to
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    I very strongly believe that it's better to start with an easy language. Sure it's easier to learn Python after C++ than it is to learn C++ after Python, but a harder language will most likely frustrate and discourage beginners. I
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    Others have suggested autocomplete before. I opened https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder/issues/120 in response as a place to talk about it. But in general my opinion is that it would probably actually b
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    Updates since then: - A new 'assistant' UI that prevents users from getting stuck on instructions they found unclear, which was the most common complaint. - Can now be translated to other languages. - Available in 3 other language
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    It's available in Spanish: https://es-latam.futurecoder.io/ It was actually the first translation to be finished 100%, although now it's fallen behind to 91% as new English text was added. The reason it's not
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    > simplifying the language and some of the conceptual stuff This might work to an extent, but I think it makes more sense to choose a resource that's actually targeted at kids so that it's holistically and fundamentally designe
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    1. Thanks, I've never heard about this, will definitely need to check it out. Opened https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder/issues/418 2. Because it all runs in the browser (thanks to Pyodide) it&#x27
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    Thanks! Great job teaching your daughter so well at such a young age! > but there are more tools for Python these days I can't comment on what exists or what's possible in Ruby, but futurecoder does indeed have a lot of specifi
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    The buttons on the landing page are: - Start learning (see the tutorial content) or - Just code (you don't need to learn, you just want to use the editor/shell as a simple scratchpad/playground with some enhancements) The lin
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    That's not really true. For the actual exercises where you need to solve a problem yourself, the system only tests that the code produces the correct output. It doesn't require you to use a specific approach, so there are infinite
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    by alexmojaki 4y ago

    > Is there any way for users to construct their own multiple stage tutorials? I really hope some kind of GUI to do that can exist one day, but it's definitely a complicated feature that I'd need help from contributors to build.
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    Show HN: Futurecoder – A free interactive Python course for coding beginners(futurecoder.io)

    371 points by alexmojaki 4y ago|78 comments
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    by alexmojaki 5y ago

    Creator here. Thank you! I could definitely still use help if you're willing, here's some specific issues: https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder/issues/212 https://github.com/ale
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    by alexmojaki 5y ago

    I just gave this a quick try. I entered "1,2" in the first cell and "3" in the second cell, no quotes. Then I saved, and the raw output looks like this: 1,2,3,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,, ... (100 lines
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    by alexmojaki 5y ago

    I'm afraid not, several of its features are specific to Python.
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    by alexmojaki 5y ago

    Sorry to hear that. Which part of loading are you talking about? The home page? The course? Being able to run code? There's no plans for other programming languages, a lot of the features are Python-specific.
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    by alexmojaki 5y ago

    Packages supported by Pyodide (anything that can be installed with micropip) are installed automatically when imported. So if you just import pandas, sklearn, or matplotlib, it'll just work, although it'll take a while the first t
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    by alexmojaki 5y ago

    At every step, you need to run code to advance. On that page ( https://futurecoder.io/course/#AddingStrings ) you first need to run `'hello' + 'world'` in the shell as instructed. The next step is an