[swift-users] Prototyping what Swift can look like in educational settings

[Victor Guerra]

Thank you for sharing the playground Donald! Great stuff!

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:52 PM Donald Pinckney via swift-users <
swift-users at swift.org> wrote:

> Hi Erica, and others with feedback,
>
> Thanks for your positive feedback about my playground.  Top of my list for
> critical features would be what Loïc mentioned, some mathematical notation
> support inside the playground markdown.  Currently I embedded PDFs which I
> rendered using LaTeX, but it would be amazing to perhaps have native LaTeX
> support in playgrounds.
>
> Erica,
> I really like all your suggestions, and I can certainly feel how they
> could contribute to creating very interactive learning resources.  I'm not
> quite understanding the 3rd bullet, but I'm sure it's just as great of a
> suggestion as the others ;).
>
> Donald Pinckney
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 6, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Erica Sadun <erica at ericasadun.com> wrote:
> >
> > Don,
> >
> > I love your playground. This highlights a few areas where I really would
> love to see some enhancements from the playground team. Here are a few off
> the top of my head. My actual list is longer:
> >
> > * Your students should be able to have an appropriate input and
> submission component that isn't compiled -- answering in freeform language
> to the questions.
> > * Playgrounds need a "reset" button that enable any tweaks to return to
> a pristine state for starting over.
> > * Playgrounds should offer a "compute this outside" option, that allows
> you to add code *inside* the pages but have them computed outside. For
> example in your playground there's the harmonic oscillator, and a few other
> number-crunchy stop points.
> > * Playgrounds should be able to integrate video and audio snippets so
> it's not just all text text text for lessons
> > * Playgrounds need support for grammar / spelling tests and writing
> tools.
> > * Playgrounds should also include annotation tools (highlighting, notes)
> similar to what we see in iBooks as well as snippets/note support for
> collecting items (both text and code) between lessons
> >
> > I could go on but I think you get the idea of how great it is to see
> this kind of development and how far it could be pushed for even better
> teaching/learning experiences.
> >
> > -- Erica
> > p.s. I have a book on playgrounds in iBooks, if you want to ping me
> off-list, I'll send you a promo code
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jan 6, 2016, at 11:32 AM, Tom Sheffler via swift-users <
> swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for sharing this playground!  I hadn’t seen anything quite like
> it, and it’s illuminating some of the possibilities.
> >>
> >>> On Jan 5, 2016, at 10:42 PM, Donald Pinckney via swift-users <
> swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> Personally, I love Swift, and I am curious to see if it will be used
> in educational settings, not necessarily even CS education.  As something
> of an experiment to see how Swift could currently look in education, I
> coded a Swift playground (sorry, very Mac specific right now!) that is a
> rewriting of a lab activity we did in my 3rd quarter of physics.  For those
> who are interested in educational aspects of Swift, and have a Mac to run
> this code, feel free to check out my attached playground, and give any sort
> of feedback, with respect to either the code or more philosophically where
> you think Swift could go with education.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Donald Pinckney
> >>>
> >>> <Schrödinger.playground>
> >>>
> >>>
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