Jupyter4kids
Learning and science
programming education notebooks
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
3 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for teachers and students, especially with cloud-based notebooks
From 2 comments
Nifty, thanks for posting this. I've started using Jupyter Notebooks with my (high school) technologies students this year. I can see this being particularly useful since our…
zarify on HNVery nice! Please consider uploading it to Http://notebooks.azure.com It's a free service for running and sharing Jupyter notebooks. That way the can run it immediately w/on…
smortaz on HN
Helpful for teaching basic Python with notebooks
From 1 comment
Funny, this thursday, I just used jupyter notebooks to teach basic python to beginners who wanted to plot graphs and clean up a data file:…
Iv on HN
Objections
Non-sensical examples like 'if 1 is 1' are confusing for kids
From 1 comment
I looked in the notebooks and I don't think programming can be taught like this: ``` if 1 is 1: print("hello world") ``` What is this "if 1 is 1" ? It makes no sense to ask this…
visarga on HN
Start page lacks instructions on where to run the code
From 1 comment
The 'start learning' page tells the user to try `print("hello world")` but doesn't tell the user _where_ to put it. The page has even gone so far as to tell the user that it is…
dotancohen on HN
Running notebooks requires an Azure account, which is a barrier
From 2 comments
Why not save the user the trouble of establishing an Azure account and keep everything local?
dotancohen on HNI also don't like the idea of having to create Microsoft account just to access a notebook, so if it turns out that is required for run access, then the other option is to…
mikkokotila on HN
Requests
Keep everything local rather than requiring an Azure account
From 1 comment
Why not save the user the trouble of establishing an Azure account and keep everything local?
dotancohen on HN
Use Python 3 instead of Python 2
From 1 comment
Please consider using Python 3 instead of Python 2. In particular, in Python 3, the expression 2/3 no longer gives 0, but 0.666… Much more intuitive.
teddyh on HN
Add a Jupyter usage guide and make the notebooks interactive to run
From 2 comments
The 'start learning' page tells the user to try `print("hello world")` but doesn't tell the user _where_ to put it. The page has even gone so far as to tell the user that it is…
dotancohen on HNVery cool! The first cell of your first notebook "reminds" me that we should have one part which just talks about using Jupyter in an effective way (tab completions / shortcuts /…
mikkokotila on HN
Questions
Why are the run buttons disabled in the demos
From 1 comment
Thanks, this seems exactly what I was looking for! One question though, all demos I looked at had 'run' disabled. Is there some 'catch' to this?
mikkokotila on HN
Who is the target audience and has it been tested with them
From 1 comment
Quick question: who is the target audience? Have you tried showing it to them?
MikeTheGreat on HN
Alternatives named
Azure Notebooks
From 1 comment
Very nice! Please consider uploading it to Http://notebooks.azure.com It's a free service for running and sharing Jupyter notebooks. That way the can run it immediately w/on…
smortaz on HN
Scratch
From 1 comment
Thanks for your feedback. The whole point of initially using non-sensical (and obvious) examples is 1) to make it as easy as possible to go beyond any doubt with basic numeric…
mikkokotila on HN