Codevolve Version 1

Our goal at Codevolve is to build amazing tools for learning to code. This week we’ve released some features we’re very excited about and to us seem like a big step towards achieving this goal.

This post is a quick summary of what we’ve been up to and a hint of what’s to come!

PS: Be sure to check out the last section ― we’re really excited about that one! :)

Program Input / Output

First, we’ve solved the #1 complaint we’ve received: input and output. Before, you had to pre-enter input that you wanted to run in your project. Yuck. This limited the ability to interact with code during debugging and run-time.

So we built a powerful back-end service that creates safe and secure coding sandboxes in under a second. This means projects with any type of input and output are now fully supported and behave just like they were being run on a local computer.

Here’s what this new interactive console looks like:

Web Projects

For some time, we’ve received the question “What about JavaScript?” from our users. This week, we’re releasing Beta support for complete front-end web projects (HTML, CSS & JavaScript).

These projects render on-the-fly as you write code so you get an instant update of what your website looks like. We are still working on the content editor for web projects, but we expect to have that up in the near future.

We’d really love your feedback on the web projects! How would you like to use them? The more we know about potential use cases, the better we can make this product. Shoot us an email if you have any comments :)

Codey ― A Chatbot for Coding

Last but certainly not least, we’re very excited to announce the next iteration of Codey, our integrated coding tutor.

Codey lives in all the programming projects on Codevolve and is designed to help you as you learn to code. Looking for your test cases? Just ask Codey. Need to know what to do next? Codey can help!

He’s pretty new to the world of coding himself, so go easy on him, but the more questions you ask, the better we can make him!

Here’s an action shot of a Codey conversation:

Wrapping Up

That’s all we have to share for now! If you have any questions, comments, or just want to talk about coding, we’d love to chat!

Cheers,

~ Saul & the Codevolve team