Exploring CS (Teachers)

This page is dedicated to teacher links for Exploring Computer Science.

• Scratch Resources are on a separate page.

Materials

See my 2018-2019 ECS materials. There are some topics whose material is not posted; ask if you need more.

Web Hosting Platforms

• Cloud9

  • Cost: $1/teacher/month = basically free.
  • Live display of website results.
  • Easy to upload images. (“Upload local files…")
  • Interface is busy (lots of features, maybe too many for a beginner).
  • Many languages.

• Repl.it

  • Cost:
  • No upload of images.
  • Nice simple interface for beginners.
  • Many languages including Python with turtle graphics.

Editors: Mac

• TextMate 2.0beta. Tested and works fine on modern Mac OS (10.12) as well as older.
  • Light weight (13MB)
  • Can run off a flash drive; no Administrator required.
  • HTML mode highlights and saves as “.html” automatically.

Editors: Windows

• NotePad++.