Teach with Interactive Code on Canvas

Canvas is one of the most popular LMSs out there.  Many Trinket users use Canvas to teach, so I thought I’d write a little guide about how to add interactive coding exercises to your Pages, Quizes, and Assignments with our embeddable Python Trinkets.. Interactive Code on Canvas in 3 Steps Putting an interactive Trinket on a Canvas […]

Embeddable Python Charts

Based on some great feedback and requests on our interactive Python Trinkets, today we’re releasing two Python Trinket features: data visualization and interactive animations.  We can’t wait to see how you use these Python charts in class. Ben Wheeler, our Lead Engineer, is on fire.  He built out our new interactive Python charts in just one week. […]

Computational Thinking: How Pat Counts Teaches Physics with Python

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 […]

How Brian Painter is Teaching Programming with Minecraft

A phrase I hear increasingly often is ‘I’m not a Teacher but I Teach’.  Brian Painter is representative of a group of Trinket users who don’t make their living teaching. He teaches a programming class for kids several times a year that he runs in addition to his day job. We think the way he’s […]

How to Teach Programming with Google Sites

With the release of our embeddable Python Trinkets that Brian announced a few days ago, I got thinking: where else does this let us teach programming concepts?  Google Apps is huge in the education market (and we use it here at Trinket), so I wondered how Trinket worked with Google Sites.  Turns out they work […]