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Re: Show HN: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to write, run, and share code online

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Post by jrubinovitz »

zds wrote: post #10
jrubinovitz wrote: post #9

I like this a lot. I would love to be able to code in the same online terminal with someone (I'm teaching someone Python right now and she's overseas), but I know collaborative editing is a whole different beast. I may even shoot it over to some professors in case they want to use it. It's better than taking a few minutes to boot up IDLE and can get people coding on the first day without having to teach them about th…

Glad to hear it. The one thing you can do with your friend overseas is share sessions (check out the share button in the upper right hand corner). Let us know if you have any other suggestions!

Yeah, I will try that next time we work.

Re: Show HN: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to write, run, and share code online

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Post by amasad »

neilparikh wrote: post #13

Quick question: Did you use the http://repl.it editor? Just wondering because it looks really similar.

repl.it co-creator here. Yes its powered by the repl.it open-source project but more features will be built on top of it and would be integrated with other codecademy products. I just joined codecademy and I'm particularly excited about how much it would help advance repl.it as an open source project.

Re: Show HN: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to write, run, and share code online

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Post by neilparikh »

amasad wrote: post #14
neilparikh wrote: post #13

Quick question: Did you use the http://repl.it editor? Just wondering because it looks really similar.

repl.it co-creator here. Yes its powered by the repl.it open-source project but more features will be built on top of it and would be integrated with other codecademy products. I just joined codecademy and I'm particularly excited about how much it would help advance repl.it as an open source project.

Okay thanks! That seems quite interesting. I'll be sure to follow the project.

Re: Show HN: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to write, run, and share code online

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Post by sebilasse »

amasad wrote: post #14
neilparikh wrote: post #13

Quick question: Did you use the http://repl.it editor? Just wondering because it looks really similar.

repl.it co-creator here. Yes its powered by the repl.it open-source project but more features will be built on top of it and would be integrated with other codecademy products. I just joined codecademy and I'm particularly excited about how much it would help advance repl.it as an open source project.

that is very impressive stuff. I wonder if there is a way to load own classes and files, e.g. "require 'my_class'".

Re: Show HN: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to write, run, and share code online

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Post by amasad »

sebilasse wrote: post #16
amasad wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

repl.it co-creator here. Yes its powered by the repl.it open-source project but more features will be built on top of it and would be integrated with other codecademy products. I just joined codecademy and I'm particularly excited about how much it would help advance repl.it as an open source project.

that is very impressive stuff. I wonder if there is a way to load own classes and files, e.g. "require 'my_class'".

Right now you could load modules from the stdlib. At some point we will add the ability to upload custom modules to our servers and require in your code.

Re: Show HN: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to write, run, and share code online

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Post by jQueryIsAwesome »

mesher wrote: post #4

It's definitely a neat idea, but as a Python and JavaScript coder, I don't know how much I would actually use it. For Python, my code tends to rely heavily on modules that aren't found in the Python standard library, which is limited when you're using a REPL that only has vanilla Python. For JavaScript, code that I show tends to be more oriented to DOM manipulation rather than the console, so maybe that could be some…

You can't even do an alert in that javascript console...

IMHO one should use http://jsfiddle.net/ or similar sites to learn javascript.

Re: Show HN: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to write, run, and share code online

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Post by amasad »

jQueryIsAwesome wrote: post #18
mesher wrote: post #4

It's definitely a neat idea, but as a Python and JavaScript coder, I don't know how much I would actually use it. For Python, my code tends to rely heavily on modules that aren't found in the Python standard library, which is limited when you're using a REPL that only has vanilla Python. For JavaScript, code that I show tends to be more oriented to DOM manipulation rather than the console, so maybe that could be some…

You can't even do an alert in that javascript console... IMHO one should use http://jsfiddle.net/ or similar sites to learn javascript.

Its a REPL[1]. It aims to be host environment agnostic, where you could play around with the language itself (Its accomplished by sandboxing the language in a web worker, and this is also done for Python and Ruby). Try firing up v8 or nodejs shell and do an alert.

There is an added security value in that, were you can be sure that code shared by someone else won't crash your browser.

We'll be releasing courses and tools soon that aims at teaching JavaScript and the DOM where you can go crazy with alerts ;)

You could use console.log, console.time, console.read etc.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print...

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