[HN Gopher] Show HN: Pickcode - Free online code editor for kids
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Show HN: Pickcode - Free online code editor for kids
Hi HN! I've posted Pickcode a few times (most recently
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365638), but we've improved
things quite a bit so I thought it was worth posting again. This is
a bit of 1.0 release after a long year of working on the company
full time! Pickcode is basically Replit-lite, for kids. The editor
is simple: text editor + output console + big green button to run
your code. We support Python, HTML/CSS/JS, Java, and our block/text
hybrid language, Pickcode VL. We're partners on code.org's Hour of
Code, and hundreds of thousands of students have tried our free
stuff through them. An account for individual kids is totally
free, and we offer some free Python and Pickcode VL lessons to get
them started. We make money by selling licenses to schools for
better customer support and roster/lesson management features. You
can use this demo account I made to try out the editor:
email: demo@student.pickcode.io pw: Demo1234 (Don't
clobber other people's work, and what you put in the demo account
is public so be nice)
Author : csmeyer
Score : 30 points
Date : 2024-06-29 16:56 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (pickcode.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (pickcode.io)
| Turboblack wrote:
| success to your project, I hope you will also support PHP
| ms7892 wrote:
| Best wishes!
| singpolyma3 wrote:
| Seems neat. What's the advantage over something like replit?
| csmeyer wrote:
| Basically just a lot simpler. Replit has a million features
| (and AI ghostwriter) that in my experience are distracting for
| kids (I used to be a teacher and still tutor kids 1:1)
| RodgerTheGreat wrote:
| It really bums me out how Repl.it has evolved from its
| beginnings as a simple, free, accessible-anywhere programming
| scratchpad into a heinously complex cloud-persisted SaaS
| product.
|
| Have you considered offering a version of your product that
| doesn't persist anything- or perhaps persists snippets in URI
| parameters or localStorage- and which can be used without an
| account? It would meaningfully lower barriers to entry and
| adoption.
| csmeyer wrote:
| If you go to https://app.pickcode.io/lessons you can do
| some free Pickcode VL lessons without an account. Later
| this year we'll probably add some Python or Javascript to
| that page too. URI storage would be neat!
| pmg102 wrote:
| I like that you list "100% AI-free" as a selling point!
| chaosprint wrote:
| Great project! I'm curious if the main customers are from the US?
|
| I'm asking because I'm the author of https://glicol.org/ and I
| have a similar app where teachers can see students' progress and
| students can form bands. But when I tried to commercialize it, I
| found that it was almost impossible to sell to schools in
| Northern Europe. The overall process was very slow and
| conservative.
|
| Almost everyone recommended that I go to the US.
| csmeyer wrote:
| Our customers are split between the US and Europe. There are a
| lot of decision makers in the process who need to approve a
| purchase at school, so things are pretty time consuming.
| sirjaz wrote:
| I hope you will support C#. It is rising in popularity.
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