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I know this comes from the Github team, but I'm not sure if I want to grant this permission: Delete repositories Ability to delete any adminable repository This application will be able to delete any repository to which you have admin rights.
These permissions are likely for a UI to delete your lessons. And you should have a local working backup
Happily using GitHub Classroom for programming assignments for the interview process at work. HR has the URL they send to the assignment, candidates do the work and create a PR, and then HR assigns developers as PR reviewers when the candidate is done.
If it works like I expect it to, you should be able to create different "classes" for different roles; SysAdmin, Programmer, Designer, etc. And you could create increasingly more difficult tests; build a web page, personalize it, add a cart, etc.
How are you guys using Classroom?
What a mixed feeling of (mostly) amazement and (some) disheartenment. I started looking into this space--particularly the autograder feature with full control of the execution environment, which looks look it was added to GH Classroom this March--back in 2016. I was helping teach life science graduate students how to code, and was surprised to find I couldn't find anything that fit my needs. I started working on CodeStories[1] during the few spare hours I had each week after grad school work. I made it decently far and built out a number of cool features. On the instructor side, course creation is tightly integrated with Jupyter notebooks, which is really handy. And the courses themselves have a cool level-based structure where main problems have associated side-tasks. I was able to use the site to teach several summers of courses.
I haven't necessarily kept a super close eye on developments in this space since 2016, so it wouldn't surprise me if there are other players with unique features at this point. But given that GH (arguably one of the biggest potential players here) basically just launched, there's clearly still work to be done. Personally, I had largely paused CodeStories after grad school until the events of early spring made it clear that remote learning is almost certainly going to make a resurgence. Since then, I've been putting in crazy after-work hours to figure out how marketing works (which has been intensely difficult given my lack of experience) and put a final layer of polish on a paid offering. Intermediate Python for Bioinformatics[2] starts in a couple weeks and looks like it's going to be a reasonable success. I'm excited for it and for whatever comes after it.
All that to say, I guess this is what it feels like getting scooped. I'm sure it's possible to argue that I'd already been scooped. But somehow it's different seeing it from GitHub.
Congrats to the team that built this! It looks like an amazing tool and I'm excited to see it put to use, particularly outside of the pure-CS world.
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Markdown is out of its league for proper typestting. LaTeX is superior in a major way.
Markdown is dead simple, quick and has minimal overhead. Sometimes the power of convenience trumps the power of features. It’s a trade-off. I would hate to have to use LaTeX for every small document I compose, but then I would hate to write anything longer than 3-4 pages in Markdown or that really required formatting (like a thesis). It comes down to flexibility and what the requirements are.
I know this comes from the Github team, but I'm not sure if I want to grant this permission: Delete repositories Ability to delete any adminable repository This application will be able to delete any repository to which you have admin rights.
Please don't use code blocks for quoting text until HN finally fixes their css on mobile. > Delete repositories > Ability to delete any adminable repository > This application will be able to delete any repository to which you have admin rights.
Wow. What a mixed feeling of (mostly) amazement and (some) disheartenment. I started looking into this space--particularly the autograder feature with full control of the execution environment, which looks look it was added to GH Classroom this March--back in 2016. I was helping teach life science graduate students how to code, and was surprised to find I couldn't find anything that fit my needs. I started working on…
#2 It looks like its time to pivot. Find a niche which you can exploit (like bio it seems) and conquer it. Google Docs looked like it was going to dominate everything and no one had to do anything else in that space, yet Notion comes along and is now valued at $2B.
I'm wondering at which point all of those who took the blue pill and switched to github for all their code and for its networking effects come to regret this decision as github expands into and competes with their customer's business, not unlike Amazon in this respect. I'd imagine there have been a sizable number of elearning/digital classroom projects in the last 3 months due to coronavirus that might feel threatene…
Wow. What a mixed feeling of (mostly) amazement and (some) disheartenment. I started looking into this space--particularly the autograder feature with full control of the execution environment, which looks look it was added to GH Classroom this March--back in 2016. I was helping teach life science graduate students how to code, and was surprised to find I couldn't find anything that fit my needs. I started working on…
#1 Your story and the landing page are conflicting. I can't seem to understand anything about your product from the landing page #2 It looks like its time to pivot. Find a niche which you can exploit (like bio it seems) and conquer it. Google Docs looked like it was going to dominate everything and no one had to do anything else in that space, yet Notion comes along and is now valued at $2B.
In a sentence, the product right now is an 8-week bioinformatics course. It happens to use the CodeStories platform, which I developed, but haven't fleshed out into its own product offering yet. Does that help?
re #2: Good point; I suppose there are lots of similar examples. Zoom is a relevant one that comes to mind.
This type of system seems obvious for programming courses but I wonder how intuitive it is for pure documents; the classic essay or report style assignments. At what age do kids embrace Markdown as the single source of truth for their documents? Do technical writers within Google use Gerrit, or whatever their Perforce based review process is called, as a core part of their collaborative workflow like coders do?