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comment by MisterMentat
MisterMentat  ·  3170 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An experimental UI for teaching programming

This looks like it could be emulated well by a two shell windows (or tmux) with a script that runs a unit testing script when files in a folder change on the right and just your standard editor on the left.

Cool idea though, and it'd be great for this to be automatically setup for new programmers!





akkartik  ·  3170 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, the 'motor control' section could be emulated by tmux+inotify. But you'd still have trouble writing tests that "the screen looks like this when you type this", and so on. It's also hard for learners to grok tests and code at the same time, so they currently learn testing later and not as well, or not at all.