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CourseMaker – Interactive Course Builder for Programming Courses

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Hi,

I commented on the original post but I suppose it got buried [1].

This product looks great, just wondering what kind of computing power is available to teachers for the interactive coding examples. Can it handle machine learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow) for example?

Congrats (again) to the founder on the launch.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26557174

There is also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26464998

Codeamigo definitely looks like a nice alternative as well, though I'm really keen on Python tools at the moment. Appreciate the heads up nonetheless!

The interactive coding can handle quick jobs (sub 30second with scikit-learn). For heavier loads, we're working on a Google Colab integration

Sub 30 is good. Definitely looking forward to that Colab integration though! Thanks for the reply.

Are there any similar course builder tools that allow you to "fake" the language? I'd like to make a course for Papyrus[0], the scripting language used for modding Fallout and Elder Scrolls games but there is no runtime for this language outside the game and it wouldn't really make sense running it that way anyway... (So basically just verify the entered code matches some kind of "template" but with tolerance for different new-lines, indentation, variable names, etc.)

[0] https://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Category:Papyrus

Hi! This looks really cool, as someone also working on a platform for interactive programming courses (https://codeamigo.dev, mentioned in this thread as well) I just want to commend you for the beautiful layout and design execution. Congrats on launching and best of luck!

Thanks!

Are there any examples courses that give a glimpse of how a finalised course looks like on this platform?

Not using the interactive coding lectures yet, but gives a feel: https://pythonformarketers.com

No free plan for free courses? That would be useful for open source projects.

We can't do it because we're bootstrapped and have costs which scale (streaming, code execution). However our GatsbyJS theme is open-source: https://github.com/CourseMaker/gatsby-theme-coursemaker

Seems like a young product. If anything, it should be paid. Best way to kill your product early on is to give it for free.

It worked out well for WordPress, Github, Trello, Discord and many, many others.

Best way to promote a young product is to give it for free to people creating free content. That will bring more users. Content is what brings users.

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