[HN Gopher] Code in the Browser with GitHub Classroom
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Code in the Browser with GitHub Classroom
Author : amasad
Score : 67 points
Date : 2020-05-26 17:20 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| chrisaycock wrote:
| It's great to see that GitHub is working with repl.it. When
| GitHub Codespaces was announced earlier this month, there were
| some musings that it would hurt repl.it adoption. It seems that
| there are lots of choices available.
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092904
| simonh wrote:
| Looks like repl.it doesn't support VB.NET so this is useless for
| my kids doing high school computer science, here in the UK.
| Shame.
| gorgoiler wrote:
| What's the tie in to VB? Your exam board? EdExcel (I think) are
| moving to online Python, albeit a neutered version with
| compatible syntax.
| Already__Taken wrote:
| Only a matter of time until MS took aim at my former gitlab +
| google classroom school. Going to be interesting watching what
| the frogs do to react.
|
| Git needs a generational ux improvement to see it in early
| education but I'm interested to see what (if any) pro
| education/developer tools trickle down that far.
| tosh wrote:
| Interesting to see repl.it featured by GitHub. Well deserved and
| yet unexpected.
| 52-6F-62 wrote:
| Definitely. They've come so far with it, too. Great work on
| their part!
| chipperyman573 wrote:
| I learned to program years ago in high school. Git was one of the
| things that I just never got. I remember used git as a "staging"
| platform and struggling so hard to resolve all the problems that
| kept coming up (I'm sure they were actually relatively simple to
| anyone who knows git, like a merge conflict or detached head or
| something) so much I eventually wrote a script to use rsync to
| copy and paste files that had changed since I last "pushed" to
| prod. Now that I understand how it works inside and out, I can
| appreciate how amazing git is, but I don't think it's the kind of
| thing that should (or even could) be taught to teenagers. I hope
| github keeps this mainly focused on web IDE with automatic
| grading and turn-in instead of trying to get kids to learn Git
| gorgoiler wrote:
| I've yet to inflict git on my pupils, but I think that:
|
| (a) there's definitely a route into learning how it works
| without getting confused. For example, use of analogy to
| explain the staging area and the commit process, then drawing
| on the analogy _at the end of the process_ to reference the git
| jargon.
|
| (b) I haven't done the full research but I feel that there's a
| good ecosystem of _porcelain_ for git, even though the era of
| plumbing+porcelain is far behind us. I'd appreciate any hints
| in the right direction on this front. If your answer is "hg"
| then so be it hah.
| thwarted wrote:
| > I don't think it's the kind of thing that should (or even
| could) be taught to teenagers.
|
| This makes no sense. It all depends on the goals of the
| teaching. However, it's probably more meaningful for more
| people to be exposed to the capabilities of version control so
| they avoid creating one-off home grown solutions.
|
| There was a time when the joke was that only teenagers knew how
| to set the time on the VCR.
| swiley wrote:
| IME: professional tools are easier to appreciate after
| implementing them poorly.
| amasad wrote:
| With the Repl.it integration kids need very minimal knowledge
| of git, if any. Try it.
| Rairden wrote:
| I just tried repl.it. I don't like it, but am impressed you have
| access to a shell (ubuntu, bash).
|
| I tried to delete Main.java, and it won't let you. Fine, so I
| just erase the whole text file. Then, I place two separate
| folders w/ src code in them. Code compiles fine, but still prints
| out "Hello, world!".
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| Buggy. If you use Main.java, you can still have several packages
| and it all works, but I don't like that. What I might do is erase
| Main.java, then you're forced to manually run your program from
| their bash shell ($ java MyClass). And then it works fine.
|
| I also don't like they're on openJDK 11. All the nice stuff is in
| 12-14 (text blocks, switch expressions).
| vezycash wrote:
| Scrimba for classrooms. That's what I want.
| shadycuz wrote:
| Now that's an amazing coding platform.
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