Trinket.io is shutting down.
I'm kind of bummed. It doesn't seem possible to spin up your own version on a local server so I need to decide what to do for fifth grade python programming by the end of the summer.
The head of IT put me on to trinket... I didn't like that it was an IDE in a browser. But It was clean.
Please don't tell me "just install linux on 300 chromebooks."
That would be nice, but it's not in my control. I could ask IT to add apps to the the chromebooks however.
@futurebird Don't know if it's something appropriate to your teaching, but last year I saw an excellent talk by Felienne Hermans, the creator of the Hedy programming language https://hedy.org/ . This guides young students through different levels of complexity onto full fledged Python.
You can watch her talk here, as she obviously explains it much better than me (it's video 15 in the playlist, you might enjoy the other talks as well!) https://pairprogramming.ed.ac.uk/winter-school-25/
I also recommend her article "A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689492.3689809
