Scrimba: a video format for communicating code • Hacker News Board

Re: Scrimba: a video format for communicating code

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Post by avenoir » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 10:16 PM UTC

speps wrote: post #10

Stuck on "loading" in Edge on all videos.

Same here. Console shows syntax error after loading a stream.

Re: Scrimba: a video format for communicating code

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Post by judofyr » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 10:16 PM UTC

dmux wrote: post #30

Is there sound accompanying the video? I watched several but didn't hear anything.

Yes. It's supposed to have audio. Could you submit an issue at https://github.com/scrimba/community with details about your browser/environment?

Re: Scrimba: a video format for communicating code

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Post by judofyr » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 10:21 PM UTC

theobon wrote: post #24

feature request: Ability to change playback speed. Eg 0.5x, 1.5x, 2x

I've opened an issue for tracking this here: https://github.com/scrimba/community/issues/9

Re: Scrimba: a video format for communicating code

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Post by benmcnelly » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 10:21 PM UTC

Man this is good. Any plans to extend it to other languages?

Re: Scrimba: a video format for communicating code

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Post by benmcnelly » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 10:22 PM UTC

funkaster wrote: post #27

Great job! Is there any other way to login that's not github? I'm trying to move away from github and so far the only thing preventing me are sites that require github login. It would be great if you offered just plain old email login :)

I think its because they use github for storage/forking things, but they could certainly extend it to work without it later.

Re: Scrimba: a video format for communicating code

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Post by benmcnelly » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 10:23 PM UTC

mrborgen wrote: post #22

Dangeranger wrote: post #20

Wow this is so much better than a traditional video explanation of code. Really well done and polished for a beta project. Speaking of 'beta', what is the plan for Scrimba? Are you interested in it being an open place for sharing videos and demonstrations? Or are you planning on monetizing in some way?

We plan to add monetization options yes. Basically sell courses through Scrimba. But it will also be possible to simply share casts for free.

Thats great!

Re: Scrimba: a video format for communicating code

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Post by rudimental » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 10:25 PM UTC

Really cool tool. Congratulations and great job! Look forward to seeing where this goes.

Feedback: the rerun project button is hard to locate and not prominent. I wanted to rerun the project after making some changes. I felt encouraged to save (fork) or resume playback, overwriting my edits. Make it more intuitive to rerun after making an edit.

Re: Scrimba: a video format for communicating code

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Post by sdflkd » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 10:26 PM UTC

funkaster wrote: post #27

Great job! Is there any other way to login that's not github? I'm trying to move away from github and so far the only thing preventing me are sites that require github login. It would be great if you offered just plain old email login :)

Why are you trying to move away from Github, out of curiosity?

Re: Scrimba: a video format for communicating code

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Post by abrkn » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 10:33 PM UTC

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Re: Scrimba: a video format for communicating code

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Post by judofyr » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 10:34 PM UTC

benmcnelly wrote: post #34

Man this is good. Any plans to extend it to other languages?

Thanks. Yes, other (server-side) languages are definitely coming. We're currently working with a prototype that integrates with Jupyter/IPython, and we're also playing with the idea of using Docker images for giving a full terminal. The biggest challenge is to give a powerful execution environment and make it easy for the viewer to play with the code and be able to run it.