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Re: GitHub Classroom

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Post by Kkoala »

LifeIsBio wrote: post #59
sdan wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

#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.

Thanks for the feedback. Do you have any particular examples that are conflicting? Would be happy to update the site to clarify any confusion. 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. Z…

Not OP but, if CodeStories is supposed to be an education platform similar to the Github Classroom, why is the landing page selling a Python course?

Might be easier to understand by example: I'm a user that is interested in education platform, so I land on CodeStories website (because of your comment I thought that's what it is about). I see that the landing page is instead selling a Python course => I get confused and close the page thinking that I landed on wrong page.

Re: GitHub Classroom

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Post by sdan »

Kkoala wrote: post #71
LifeIsBio wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback. Do you have any particular examples that are conflicting? Would be happy to update the site to clarify any confusion. 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. Z…

Not OP but, if CodeStories is supposed to be an education platform similar to the Github Classroom, why is the landing page selling a Python course? Might be easier to understand by example: I'm a user that is interested in education platform, so I land on CodeStories website (because of your comment I thought that's what it is about). I see that the landing page is instead selling a Python course => I get confused a…

^this right here

Re: GitHub Classroom

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Post by [deleted] »

dheera wrote: post #55
reustle wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can inject your own CSS on Firefox mobile. It's also great for getting rid of popups and paywalls.

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Re: GitHub Classroom

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Post by searchableguy »

ShamelessC wrote: post #67
sradman wrote: post #22

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?

This is peak hacker news. I'm not entirely certain I'm understanding your concern as I don't see anything in the feature list about how they handle "pure documents". My assumption is that they expect you to use markdown for such submissions (a valid choice for programming-based learning) and you're suggesting this should be more widespread and used for teaching other subjects? > At what age do kids embrace Markdown a…

I know plenty of people It takes 30 min to learn markdown and maybe more to get hang of latex but I can assure you schools spend more than 30 mins to make students learn word.

And if teachers can't learn markdown or unwilling to, maybe they shouldn't be teachers given their job is to constantly relearn and teach it to their students?

Google docs or office might not remain tomorrow either - there maybe alternative but they are not open source. Isn't that problematic along with all the proprietary tools built on top of that?

lifetime of proprietary tools is short. Why not learn open standards?

Corporate leaking into schools need to stop. Government should fund open source alternatives to all the proprietary tools used in schools.

Re: GitHub Classroom

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Post by pilif »

skissane wrote: post #18
saagarjha wrote: post #6

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It's CI for your homework. Surely your teacher will only look at your finished work?

Seeing your mistakes might be useful in reassuring the teacher that you did the work yourself, rather than simply plagiarising the solution from somewhere else.

Git just isn't the right tool for that. If I were to use this as a student, I would push nicely sanitized and consistent history after thoroughly rebasing, amending and fixup-ing my mistakes on my local clone.

There's nothing this too can do to prevent me from doing this.

If the teacher then judges the submission by also looking at the history, I will have an unfair advantage by just having read and internalized got features.

Re: GitHub Classroom

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Post by zuppy »

dheera wrote: post #55
reustle wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can inject your own CSS on Firefox mobile. It's also great for getting rid of popups and paywalls.

let's not go back on works-on-IE-5 era. sites should work on the browsers that people use, not the other way around. i don't think it's fair that you got downvoted, though, your intention was good, you provided a solution.

Re: GitHub Classroom

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Post by [deleted] »

saagarjha wrote: post #21
skissane wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seeing your mistakes might be useful in reassuring the teacher that you did the work yourself, rather than simply plagiarising the solution from somewhere else.

Sorry, professor, I simply don’t make mistakes.

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Re: GitHub Classroom

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Post by user5994461 »

ShamelessC wrote: post #67
sradman wrote: post #22

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?

This is peak hacker news. I'm not entirely certain I'm understanding your concern as I don't see anything in the feature list about how they handle "pure documents". My assumption is that they expect you to use markdown for such submissions (a valid choice for programming-based learning) and you're suggesting this should be more widespread and used for teaching other subjects? > At what age do kids embrace Markdown a…

>> But I know of adults who are barely interested in or capable of using Word/Google Docs correctly.

I think markdown would work precisely because of this. Word is too hard to use and too easy to create documents that are impossible to edit by a second person.

For context. I've just watched my wife trying for 20 minutes to add one item to a bullet list, with the proper indentation and numbering of course. Mission impossible.

That problem wouldn't exist in Markdown. There is no way to accidentally do an unmodifiable list of list in a table indented by spaces.

Of course any user adoption would require a decent editor software with live preview and export to PDF.

Re: GitHub Classroom

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Post by smichel17 »

ShamelessC wrote: post #67
sradman wrote: post #22

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?

This is peak hacker news. I'm not entirely certain I'm understanding your concern as I don't see anything in the feature list about how they handle "pure documents". My assumption is that they expect you to use markdown for such submissions (a valid choice for programming-based learning) and you're suggesting this should be more widespread and used for teaching other subjects? > At what age do kids embrace Markdown a…

I think you underestimate children. I'd guess that, on average, they'd pick up markdown more easily than adults, who are already set in their ways.

Re: GitHub Classroom

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Post by dntbnmpls »

jpm48 wrote: post #16

I've been using it for all my programming units for a number of years. Whilst I don't use all of the features the main bonus for me is making the students commit code regularly and see the progress (or not!). It also has a number of advantages, I have lost count of the number of times I have been sent screen shots of error messages (even camera photos of a screen). I now insist that all errors a reported via issues.…

What about the privacy implications for your students? Do you have a way you handle that? Aren't you giving microsoft tons of your students' info ( including grades ) without the students' permission or even awareness?
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