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 […]
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. […]
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 […]