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by alexmojaki 5y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, will investigate.
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by alexmojaki 5y ago
Glad you like it! Yes, the basics of f-strings are covered in https://futurecoder.io/course/#IntroducingFstrings
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by alexmojaki 5y ago
Highlights: - 100% free and open source ( https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder ), no ads or paid content. - No account required at any point. You can start instantly. (You can create an account if you want to save y
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Show HN: Futurecoder – A free online interactive Python course(futurecoder.io)
8 points by alexmojaki 5y ago|2 comments
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by alexmojaki 5y ago
- While I know that some people have used this with children and the children said they liked it and made some progress, I imagine some children need a game like https://codecombat.com/ to not lose interest. - This is targe
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by alexmojaki 5y ago
The only modern browser that I know really doesn't work is Safari, which unfortunately doesn't play well with Pyodide, see e.g. https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/issues/441 It should work to an ext
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by alexmojaki 6y ago
There's also https://github.com/alexmojaki/snoop For comparison: 19:32:30.66 >>> Call to add_up in File "/home/joel/example.py", line 5 19:32:30.66 ...... numbers = [123
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by alexmojaki 6y ago
What is TFA? icecream, the subject of this post, returns its parameter unmodified without multiple evaluations.
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by alexmojaki 6y ago
Do you get reply notifications?
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by alexmojaki 6y ago
What would you do in this case? The student has never seen a tuple, or iterable unpacking of any form. Would you just show them `for index, word in enumerate(words)` and tell them not to worry about what that means? Quite shortly after this
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by alexmojaki 6y ago
Thanks, it is fun, and quite rewarding. There's still a lot to do, wanna join in?
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by alexmojaki 6y ago
Which is why it specifically says "is similar to the list". But you may be surprised how many list-like operations `range` supports. Subscripting, `len`, `in`, `.count`, `.index`. It might as well be a tuple. And if you want to ni
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by alexmojaki 6y ago
When the course reaches the point that students are ready to learn about enumerate (see my reply above) the course will definitely cover it and emphatically point out that it is the better way.
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by alexmojaki 6y ago
Thanks! If you've wanted to make something similar, would you perhaps join me in making this? I'm looking for contributors. Yes, enumerate is better, but I want to teach concepts one at a time and I want students to understand wha
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by alexmojaki 6y ago
Haha yeah I find it easy too, which is why we're here, but I'm trying to also make it easy for people who normally think it isn't. And yes, setting up Python is a pain, so I think being able to start learning and running code
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by alexmojaki 6y ago
Thanks! I'm thinking I should start a Slack. Any opinions on that? In the meantime can you open an issue to talk about it?
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Show HN: A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python(github.com)
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Instantly Create a Python Flask API with a Swagger UI and Other Features(github.com)
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by alexmojaki 7y ago
This isn't like a traditional debugger, so there isn't a concept of breakpoints, but the functions snoop, spy, and pp will all work in a multiprocess context.
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Snoop: A Python debugging library designed for maximum convenience(github.com)
3 points by alexmojaki 7y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Birdseye: a Python debugger which shows the value of every expression(github.com)
8 points by alexmojaki 8y ago|0 comments