Elliott Hauser teaches attendees at PyGotham 2014 the elements of a teaching stack and how to set up their own for teaching Python.

1. Finding Your
Teaching Stack
Elliott Hauser
elliott@trinket.io
@hauspoor

2. Why Teach?
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3. Why a Teaching Stack?
We’re going to be doing this more than once.

4. An Example Stack:
Young Coders Tutorial
Student
Materials Access:
Github Pages
Coding Environment:
IDLE & Raspberry Pi
Instructor
Coding Environment:
IDLE & Raspberry Pi
Assignments:
Self made; on Github
Materials:
Self made; on Github

5. Elements of a Teaching Stack
Student
Materials Access
Coding Environment
Instructor
Coding Environment
Assignments
Materials Source

6. Example Teaching Stack:
Software Carpentry
Student
Materials Access:
Github Pages
Coding Environment:
Anaconda & Bash
Instructor
Coding Environment:
Anaconda & Bash
Assignments:
Github repository
Materials Source:
software-carpentry.org

7. Teaching Stack Best Practices
Student
Materials Access
Coding Environment
Instructor
Coding Environment
Assignments
Materials
Put materials on the
Web for free.
Use the same coding
setup that students do
to avoid confusion
Use open materials that
at least one other person
has worked on or used
1.
2.
3.

8. The ‘Best’ Stack?
Depends on your students:
PhD Scientists
Middle School Students
Programmers
Adult Beginners
Undergraduates
K12 Teachers

9. Coding Environment:
What do your students need?
Fast Setup Slow Setup
Cloud Based Local
Free Paid
Open Source Proprietary
Community
(for Teaching)
No Community

10. Raspberry Pi + IDLE
Fast Setup Slow Setup
Cloud Based Local
Free Paid
Open Source Proprietary
Community No Community

11. Nitrous.io
Fast Setup Slow Setup
Cloud Based Local
Free Paid
Open Source Proprietary
Community No Community

12. Anaconda
Fast Setup Slow Setup
Cloud Based Local
Free Paid
Open Source Proprietary
Community No Community

13. Jython Environment for Students
Fast Setup Slow Setup
Cloud Based Local
Free Paid
Open Source Proprietary
Community No Community

14. Deep(ish) Dive:
My Teaching Stack
Student
Materials Access:
Github Pages
Coding Environment:
Trinket & Nitrous.io
Instructor
Coding Environment:
Trinket & Nitrous.io
Assignments:
Codingbat.com & Custom
Materials Source:
Interactivepython.org

15. Nitrous.io

16. Trinket:
Python in the Browser for Teaching

17. Flask:
Simple, Beautiful Microframework

18. Do I Use Best Practices?
Put materials on the
Web for free.
Use the same coding
setup that students do
to avoid confusion
Use open materials that
at least one other person
has worked on or used
1.
2.
3.
Student
Materials Access:
Github Pages
Coding Environment:
Trinket & Nitrous.io
Instructor
Coding Environment:
Trinket & Nitrous.io
Assignments:
Codingbat.com & Custom
Materials Source:
Interactivepython.org

19. And now….
Let’s put Python in your Python so you can
code while you code (aka I did a demo here)

20. Awesome Resources for Teaching
Coding Env
Anaconda
Nitrous.io
PyCharm
Wakari
JES
Materials & Assgnts.
interactivepython.org
codingbat.com
Python koans
Other Tools
IPython Notebooks
Trinket.io

21. Questions or Stack Suggestions?

22. Thanks!
Elliott Hauser
elliott@trinket.io
@hauspoor