This is part of a series of occasional interviews I’m doing of educational innovators, both inside and outside the teaching profession. You can find the past interviews here. We met Elizabeth Wickes at Pycon 2014 and I’m delighted that she agreed to do an interview for us. She’s smart, personable, and passionate about forming community […]
You may have heard that Trinket has committed over two thousand dollars in matching contributions to Professor Kris Shaffer’s IndieGoGo project to write an interactive, open source Music textbook. As Trinket’s CEO, my job is to build a company that customers love enough to pay money to. As an educator and erstwhile academic, I wholeheartedly support […]
This is the third of an occasional interview series I’m doing of educational innovators. You can find the whole series here. Pat Counts is a Physics teacher from Wyoming, Ohio (a city outside of Cincinnati). We met him at the Pycon Education Summit, where we learned of his efforts to incorporate Python into his curriculum. We’ve […]
When Brian announced the release of the interactive Python Trinket almost exactly a week ago, we weren’t sure what the reception would be. In short, it’s been amazing. We were featured on reddit, Hacker News, and had the most Twitter mentions yet. Signups have been amazing and users are building out really exciting courses. We […]
We’re sad to share that our lead designer Julia Elman is moving on from Trinket. She’s been a huge part of building our new brand and our new app, and I want to celebrate her achievements here and wish her well at her next adventure. The silver lining is that she’ll now be teaching full […]