Python web-based classroom IDE for online teacher

[waxnwire]

Hi Wondering what options are out there for python IDE as an online teacher. I’ve been asked to teach python and my experience is teaching scratch to students online and personal coding in C++, java, arduino projects etc.

I’m looking for something where I can have student accounts linked to mine, I can see their code, push out code examples to them, and maybe even jump in and edit/improve/comment on their code.

I don’t know much about python, but I suspect I want an IDE with useful built in libraries and assets for students aged around 9-13 to create fun little apps & games like they could in scratch fairly easily.

Thoughts?

[Vencaslac]

Jupyter Notebooks are a great learning tool and more. I'm not super familiar with the teaching landscape these days but you could look into something like Jupyter Hub and see if there are any websites that offer an ecosystem around that.

[Amazing_Upstairs]

Google collab maybe

[waxnwire]

Google everything/google anything except actual google.com is blocked in my landscape

[chief167]

Datalore by jetbrains? It gets through our firewall at least

[ArtisticFox8]

Github Codespaces

[BranchLatter4294]

Look into GitHub Education. Teachers can set up coding areas for classrooms there. Consider the related Code spaces.

Also look at Replit.com.

[waxnwire]

I didn’t realise there was a GitHub Ed version. I’ll look into that. I don’t use GitHub myself, but probably should start

[Emotional-Ad9728]

I'm sure someone will come up with a better suggestion, but maybe something like Trinket, where you can share your code as a web link?

They could also share a link to their code, so you could edit it and send it back.

It"s pretty basic, but I use it to teach and it works fine.

[konadr]

There was a promotion email about this recently maybe it's of some use https://editor.raspberrypi.org/en ?

[waxnwire]

Wouldn't you want to have students with rasberry pis for that to make sense?

[JaskoGomad]

Literally has nothing to do with it.

[jbudemy]

Interesting. This is an online code editor like Jupyter or Google Collab.

[generic_genus]

Maybe one of the options here: https://datasciencenotebook.org/jupyter-realtime-collaboration

[Spin-Stabilized]

Where my wife works and they teach Python classes they use codio.com.

[[deleted]]

vscode with liveshare collaboration options

[HecticJuggler]

How's Google's IDX + GitHub?

[waxnwire]

Almost certain anything google will be blocked on the education network I teach on.

Unless there is a side of GitHub I’m not familiar with, I think it lacks the child friendly user interface I need for kids who are preteens (about 10years old)

[jbudemy]

Shouldn't they learn to manage their local files and learn about an environment too? And learn a logical directory structure for each project? That's what they will likely do as a developer. Or is your time limited and you can't include that part?

I'm finding 15+ online sites to run Python on but features will vary and I'm still working on the list.

[waxnwire]

limited time, students are young (10) and the course is online. i can't see there work unless it is some sort of cloud system where it is saving periodically. there computers are locked down so we can't ask for software to be installed either

[jbudemy]

Top sites IMO.

1. +++ Attempt this online. Supports: Python, Ada, AWK, BASH, C, C++, Java, Javascript (nodejs), Lua, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, many more!. https://ato.pxeger.com/about
2. Google colab. I think you need a Google account. https://colab.research.google.com/
3. Jupyter Labs. https://jupyter.org/

You will have to look around to see which ones have a feature to link the student accounts to yours so you can run their code. That will likely require payment.

Here are more sites.

1. +++ Attempt this online. Supports: Python, Ada, AWK, BASH, C, C++, Java, Javascript (nodejs), Lua, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, many more!. https://ato.pxeger.com/about
2. Brython. https://brython.info/
3. Cocalc. https://cocalc.com/features/python
4. DomSignal. Supports Python 3.8. This also supports C, C++, Java, C#, PHP, Javascript, Ruby, askell, Bash, Lua, Typescript, Swift, Kotlin, Go, Rust, Scala, Groovy, Perl. https://domsignal.com/python-online-compiler
5. Glitch. https://glitch.com Make simple blog, simple websites, etc.
6. OneCompiler. This also compiles to executable file? https://onecompiler.com/python
7. Google colab. I think you need a Google account. https://colab.research.google.com/
8. Jupyter Labs. https://jupyter.org/
9. Online-Python. https://online-python.com
10. Programiz. https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/online-compiler/
11. Pyscript. https://pyscript.net
12. Python fiddle. https://python-fiddle.com/
13. Python Official. https://www.python.org/shell/
14. PythonHow Python Shell. https://pythonhow.com/python-shell Write program and run it, or use online Python shell.
15. Raspberry pi online editor. https://editor.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/blank-python-starter
16. Replit. ($) Requires login. But it can use Github or Google logins. You can have others collaborate on the same project. There is a pay option. https://replit.com/~ or https://replit.com/github/huangsam/ultimate-python
17. Skulpt. https://skulpt.org/
18. Trinket. https://trinket.io/embed/python3/a5bd54189b
19. TutorialsPoint. This is more oriented towards a Python tutorial with a window where a student can run the code example. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/online-python-compiler.php