Online python tutor integration into edx
Created by Carlos Rocha and Philip Guo for edX Hackathon 4
The goal of this hack is to integrate Philip's open-source Online Python Tutor project into edX Studio.
Tens of thousands of students are already using Online Python Tutor in Computer Science MOOCs such as 6.00x, and instructors of several new edX courses have expressed interest in using this tool as well.
Thus, it would be great to provide an easy way for instructors to insert these code visualizations as modules in their courses.
For this hack, we created a module and user interface in edX Studio that lets instructors create a Python Tutor component.
This component embeds the visualization in an iframe, so no code needs to be hosted on edX servers. Here's a screenshot:
The code lives in the rocha/pythontutor branch of edx-platform.