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Teaching with ipythonblocks at UW
I’ve got a blog post up over on the Software Carpentry blog about trying out ipythonblocks in the classroom for the first time. Summary: it was a hit! The students really got a lot out of being able to...
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Announcing ipythonblocks.org
Way back… About a year ago, inspired by Greg Wilson, I wrote ipythonblocks as a fun way for students (and anyone else!) to practice writing Python with immediate, step-by-step, visual feedback about...
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The Libraries of ipythonblocks.org
In this post I’ll describe the libraries used by ipythonblocks.org to turn requests into web pages and JSON to send back to users. In some future posts I’ll describe how it’s actually put on the...
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ipythonblocks.org Move: Part 1
This is Part 1 in a series of blog posts describing my move of ipythonblogs.org from Rackspace to Heroku. In this first post I’ll describe the existing deployment and what I intend to change during the...
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ipythonblocks.org Move: Part 2 – Data Migration
This is Part 2 in a series of blog posts describing my move of ipythonblogs.org from Rackspace to Heroku. In Part 1 of this series I described my motivation for the move and the broad changes I expect...
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ipythonblocks.org Move: Part 3 — Database Interface
This is Part 3 in a series of blog posts describing my move of ipythonblogs.org from Rackspace to Heroku. In this post I’ll describe the updates I’ve made to the database interface module of...
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ipythonblocks.org Move: Part 4 – Application Updates
This is Part 4 in a series of blog posts describing my move of ipythonblogs.org from Rackspace to Heroku. In this post I’ll describe the updates I’ve made to the application layer of ipythonblocks.org....
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