Trinket.io is shutting down.

you wouldn't pool noodle a foxdragon

@futurebird @alter_kaker opened a terminal to check something out on the laptop of one of my club's linux newbies and he went "you're hacking!!!!!!"

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@ben @futurebird And it’s run by microslop so it’s awfully likely to start pushing AI features at the students you’re trying to teach coding to.

And that’s without even touching the question of covert vendor promotion through educational channels.

myrmepropagandist

@kirakira @alter_kaker

One of my sixth grade student **tattled on me** to the IT head because "she was hacking" (using terminal)

He just rolled around laughing for a full min.

fraggle

@futurebird @alter_kaker I hope you showed them https://hackertyper.net/

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@futurebird Sorry to double post, I was just reading the Trinket announcement. I guess it's possible someone in the community will pick up the server software if Trinket do open source it, as they say they will.

Is the Pickcode option they recommended off the table, or just not suitable? The about page sounds earnest, at least. Sounds quite pricey though, unfortunately.

Ben Lubar (any pronouns)

@cmdrmoto @futurebird the premise is they're using chromebooks. that ship has sailed.

Sean Lynch

@futurebird @alter_kaker

Codidad can be run on your own server and students can go to a url and they'll get a python ide. But there's no command line.

I'll ask my son the HS math teacher if he knows of anything.

Jonathan E. Magen 🇮🇱🇺🇦☮️

@futurebird would a teaching-specific language with a web IDE work? Something like Pyret?

Pyret

The Pyret programming language

(pyret.org)

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@futurebird i used to really like using replit for things like that but it seems like that company has pivoted to being some AI slop app generator thing for some reason??
i feel like there has to be some sort of open source alternative to it but i don't know what's out there

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@futurebird YAAAAS

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@futurebird @alter_kaker We were the 'deploy girl' in college, cause we had terminal skills and could ssh into shit.
Was great, except for when everyone had stayed up in the first place to get the code written, and then we had to stay up an extra half hour or so for _everyone's_ grades.

myrmepropagandist

@b

Replit was so delightful and fun and it went the way of all apps in #Doctorow speed run.

There is no way to use it now without dealing with nonsense. Not even if you pay. Very sad.

I hate webaps.

Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx)

@futurebird lmao reminds me of 8th grade Keyboarding class. I finished my exercises and dropped into DOS bc I was bored. I didn't know how to do anything dangerous there, just basic navigation and dir lists and such, but that was enough to get some of the other kids asking if I was a hacker!

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@futurebird I don't know how much freedom you have but I taught a one week course on just general coding but we used python, and i have resources here:
https://moosadee.gitlab.io/courses/camp_creative_coding/index.html

We did some various web tools.

sidereal

@futurebird @nazokiyoubinbou It's odd to me that I don't hear more people talking about this. Apple computers are pretty great for programming and especially web dev in my experience: you get a unix-like terminal environment, but you can also use all the corporate software you want. It's a bit heretical to say, but this ends up functionally being linux that will run adobe software natively, which is very useful to some people (AKA, me when I was doing front end web dev)