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Show HN: LiaScript - Markdown for interactive and open online
courses
Author : passe
Score : 14 points
Date : 2021-08-05 12:12 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (liascript.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (liascript.github.io)
| passe wrote:
| Basically any Markdown can be used to describe educational
| content. Courses can be stored/hosted everywhere github or
| dropbox, or even IPFS and Hyper (via the Beaker-browser). The
| only thing you have to provide is the URL to your main README.md
| as an URL-Parameter:
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| https://liascript.github.io/course/?https://raw.githubuserco...
|
| That's basically it. Anyone can create courses and share them
| her/his audience. No back-end, just a simple WebApp that can also
| store courses permanently, within the browser ...
|
| Extensions to common-Markdown are:
|
| * Multimedia Extensions: ?[audio](url), !?[video](url),
| ??[anything](url)
|
| * Text2Speech and Animations to provide a YouTube-like screen-
| cast feeling
|
| * Quizzes, surveys ...
|
| * Code-Blocks can be made executable and editable
|
| * Automated visualization of data provided within tables
|
| * Embrace the <script> tag
|
| * Extendable with macros and a simple packaging format
|
| * ASCII-Art and more ...
|
| The idea behind this project is, to have a simple language for
| educational content, which allows anyone to participate in the
| creation of educational content, by getting away from complex
| user-interfaces, platforms, vendor-locks, etc.
| animal_spirits wrote:
| This is super cool, well done!
| imagineerschool wrote:
| Thank you for this! Great work! I look forward to exploring it
| fully :)
|
| Really cool work - and it works! I'm going to noodle around and
| deploy it to gitlab :)
|
| On a philosophical aside, it hurts my heart to see "Open-Source"
| with the logo of a private company (microsoft-owned github)
| representing this Free Software for Free Culture. I'm embarrassed
| to bring it up, but I feel like the battle for our collective
| soul is being decided here. I do not wish to fault the author for
| making the most convenient choice for easy user onboarding, I
| just wish the world were otherwise.
|
| Thank you again to the wonderful author!
|
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|
| Edit: This article on development is illuminating
| https://aizac.herokuapp.com/from-hero-to-zero-with-learning-...
| passe wrote:
| Thank you ... GitHub-pages was once just a test website and we
| stuck to it, but you can host it by your own. We try to be as
| agnostic as possible, but CORS is still a problem for many
| sites, which do not allow to load their content (README) by
| another site. With hosting content on GitLab, we had this
| problem, that they have this restriction and block loading ...
| previously we used cors-anywhere as a proxy, but this does not
| seem to work anymore, we will update this in the next version
| ...
|
| At the moment we are trying different protocols. At the moment
| we are trying different hosting options and protocols.
| LiaScript can be hosted via IPFS or Hyper and so can also the
| courses. Using the beaker-browser you can also directly write
| create content within the browser and share it immediately.
| Thus LiaScript also supports these protocols and more are about
| to come ;-)
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