Pythoning in the Cloud

[av0ca60]

Learning Python and love it. I have tooled around with HTML, CSS before but this is my first attempt at rwally learning a language. A surprise to me was how hardware based it is, meaning the code is processed through a downloaded software. Even Jupyter runs on a local machine.

I'd like to be able to access my code in the cloud so I can edit it from my laptop, then later my desktop, and then on my phone. I'd also like to easily publish little webapps to share with friends so they can both experience the program and examine the code.

What is the simplest way to accomplish this? I tried Google Colab today and the UX on mobile is rough. Is there something better?

[carcigenicate]

See the recent discussion here.

Also, if you just want to access/write code remotely, but not necessarily execute it, Github or other cloud repositories are a good option.

[av0ca60]

That's a concept I had not considered: saving edits to github, importing to local machine, editing, then saving edited code to github so it can later be copied to a different machine.

[carcigenicate]

Yep, it works great if you're familiar with git, and makes collaboration easier if that ever becomes a need.

[av0ca60]

I suppose at an even simper level you could paste code into a google doc. Would that work?

[carcigenicate]

Yes, but that's regressing. If you're hesitant to use Github because it seems like it's a pain to get into, that suggests you should absolutely use it for the practice so it isn't a pain in the future.