Our interactive Python trinkets were designed to be used in the classroom but users are finding many other creative ways to use them! In this interview, Mike Molony describes how he’s been steadily working his way through Project Euler, a set of mathematical programming challenges, and blogging his interactive solutions using Trinket. Enjoy! This is part of […]
Is it crazy to ask teachers to take time out of their hard-earned weekends to learn to code? Probably, but when we do they’re saying ‘yes.’ On August 9th, Trinket is helping to organize an event to get Middle and High School teachers prepared to teach an Hour of Code this fall. We weren’t sure […]
An effective and time-honored technique for introducing teaching algorithmic thinking to a class is to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. No, I’m not joking. Here’s proof: a university computer science class making a sandwich. As humans, making a sandwich is easy. For computers (robots, at least), it can also be easy – given […]
Wikispaces is the most popular wiki provider for education, with over 10 million users worldwide. Trinket lets you make any page into an interactive tool for teaching Programming. Put them together and you have an amazing interactive, student-editable class site. Just trying out Python? Check our example Hour of Python course on Wikispaces – and […]
Python has been called a poetic programming language, so I thought why not try writing poetry with it? This is a bit of a departure, but my background in Art History always helps me look for the artistic applications of what we’re doing at Trinket. So here’s a generative poem I wrote in Python. Click Run and […]