PythonMonk – Learn Python in the browser

this kind of thing is a good resource for people who already know how to code, but need a fast and elegant syntax guide. its not useful for teaching beginners because, as you've said, it doesn't deal with the tool chain or project organization, etc. but if you know Ruby and want to learn Python, this is a great resource.

The next step would be an ipython notebook verses showing the student the debugger console with prepopulated state in Javascript.. In fact, later lessons as modules to interact with in a notebook would be kind of cool.

I really don't buy the "you have to own a car to drive one arguments" and the whole point of modern software engineering is to pull you away from the assumption of full system control and the ability to make problems go away with shell skills.

But, I would like more immediate source code management integration. That is the essential reality I always see lacking..

A non-programmer that understood git basics would be more helpful to me as a colleague than a competent programmer that doesn't.

I tend to disagree. It works in a sense that it can take a person with no knowledge of the syntax and flow of a language and remove some of the fear of getting started. I think it is a great non-intimidating way to get an overview of a language. Yes, they are going to need more instruction, but it's a start.

We're building our way up to this. For now, we are focussing on helping more people teach how to think in a particular language.

We'll get to the rest fairly quickly, though that would likely be in the form of screencasts.

PS: I'm on the CodeMonk team, the folks that are behind PythonMonk.com and RubyMonk.com

My very favorite Python sandboxing method is the one used by repl.it:

http://repl.it/languages/Python

They compiled CPython with Emscripten, and it gets run on your browser.

This particular behaviour can occur because the process is disallowed to call fork() and can be done with setrlimit() (see RLIMIT_NPROC). There should be other protections, though, because forking a "ls" is not the only way to access the filesystem.

We already support teaching most of these - if you know anyone that would like to create courseware around any of these topics please let us know.

Our courseware marketplace is still in a private alpha, but we are actively soliciting awesome hackers that would like to teach online.

But of course that is a valid piece of code!

"15" completely matches the specification you give.

maybe you had a typo? or they have corrected this in the meantime? I just tried this problem and it was error free.

def unique(values): """Finds all unique elements of a list.

        >>> unique([])
        []
        >>> unique([1, 2, 1])
        [1, 2]
        >>> unique([1, 2, 1, 3, 4, 2])
        [1, 2, 3, 4]
    """
    # your code here
    return list(set(values))

Thanks for pointing the mistake. Corrected the tests now.

Solution to that problem is correct. Sets weren't introduced yet.

I tried llvm based project https://github.com/kracekumar/test-empythoned(empythoned: https://github.com/replit/empythoned). There are few limitation I am facing, `import` system don't work(compilation issue). From my experience more effort is required.

"A programmer may try to get you to install Python 3 and learn that. You should tell them, 'When all of the python code on your computer is Python 3, then I'll try to learn it.' That should keep them busy for about 10 years."

- Zed Shaw, "Learn Python the Hard Way"

while I agree that we should be more proactive about migrating to Python 3, if you're trying to be pragmatic it is most useful to teach Python 2.7 since that is the most widely used version.