Remote Pair Programming

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hello, I regularly give tutoring in distance learning. Soon, I will give a course on perl. I'm looking for a way to share an editor between my student and me. I would like something simple like tutorialspoint.com/execute_perl_online.php that would allow collaboration. I haven't found anything. Should I make it myself? Do you have any ideas?

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Shameless plug: I recently built this.

https://github.com/three-consulting/ohut

It is SIMPLE for sure, essentially just an app for syncing files in real time between a bunch of users. If this could work for you, great! If not, I'd be glad to hear your feedback.

You should definitely give a try to https://duckly.com/ - it has real-time integrations to different IDEs but it also has a Web IDE in case the students don't have the IDE integration.

Besides that, it also has other cool things that may be very useful for your use-case like: terminal sharing, audio/video chat, simple unique urls that you can share, presence to see who's on a room, URLs to join a call/session without an account, Chrome Extension for sharing webpages, etc.

(Disclaimer I'm the founder of Duckly)

I will defintely give it a try. Just a question. When I am the teacher sharing a terminal, how am I protected from a student typing "rm -rf /" ?

By default it's shared read-only, you can share with writing permissions with `duckly -w` flag

https://replit.com - apparently Perl is available in the bash environment

it's great! It's exactly what I need. Thanks again

You could use Visual Studio Code's "Live Share". It's the best implementation of a shared environment I've personally seen, and it's pretty easy to set up. Free, too.

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