Developing your first Khan Academy exercise

#1

Post by stchangg » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 11:37 PM UTC

I wanted to share some things I learned while making my first Khan Academy exercise - this is primarily intended for beginners to web development.

Please let me know if you find this useful/give feedback on how I can improve it.

Thanks!

Developing your first Khan Academy exercise
blog.stchangg.com

Re: Developing your first Khan Academy exercise

#2

Post by zackzackzack » Sun, Feb 19, 2012, 12:23 AM UTC

This is the second person from IMSA I have seen on Hacker News' front page in the past 24 hours.

http://roshfu.com/2012/02/17/did-you-hear-we-got-osama.html

Titans!

Re: Developing your first Khan Academy exercise

#3

Post by ig1 » Sun, Feb 19, 2012, 1:05 AM UTC

I had a look at contributing to KA's exercises, but found the documentation quite hard to follow (it's more of an assortment of articles rather than a coherent guide), it would be good if someone put together a step-by-step guide to development.

Re: Developing your first Khan Academy exercise

#4

Post by ricehornet » Sun, Feb 19, 2012, 1:20 AM UTC

Article does a great job of setting expectations for the audience and linking to resources for pre-req information. Thanks!

Re: Developing your first Khan Academy exercise

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Post by kamens » Sun, Feb 19, 2012, 1:23 AM UTC

ig1 wrote: post #3

I had a look at contributing to KA's exercises, but found the documentation quite hard to follow (it's more of an assortment of articles rather than a coherent guide), it would be good if someone put together a step-by-step guide to development.

Understood. If you hop on into the our exercise team's hipchat room (https://www.hipchat.com/g2m3UVDtY) and throw us some specific spots where you got stuck, we'll try to improve.

Re: Developing your first Khan Academy exercise

#6

Post by kamens » Sun, Feb 19, 2012, 1:25 AM UTC

ig1 wrote: post #3

I had a look at contributing to KA's exercises, but found the documentation quite hard to follow (it's more of an assortment of articles rather than a coherent guide), it would be good if someone put together a step-by-step guide to development.

Also, it may be worth checking out the walkthrough video and extended docs here, linked from @stchangg's post: http://khan-exercises.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

Re: Developing your first Khan Academy exercise

#7

Post by DanielRibeiro » Sun, Feb 19, 2012, 1:51 AM UTC

Quick Note: Chorme's Private Browsing does not cache anything. No need to mess with configuration.

Re: Developing your first Khan Academy exercise

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Post by choxi » Sun, Feb 19, 2012, 2:49 AM UTC

zackzackzack wrote: post #2

This is the second person from IMSA I have seen on Hacker News' front page in the past 24 hours. http://roshfu.com/2012/02/17/did-you-hear-we-got-osama.html Titans!

lol