Python Sponge book editor

Create your own Python Sponge challenge books from within VSCode

Python Sponge

Python Sponge is an open-source project that enables portable, installation-free, serverless Python programming in the browser, for education. The code base is available on Github.

Students can make use of the hundreds of challenges we have authored for PyshonSponge.com.

Teachers can author their own challenge books, which they can then either host statically (e.g. on github pages or Google Drive), or distribute as zip files. For more information, see https://www.pythonsponge.com/teacher.html.

Why do you need this VSCode extension then? If as a teacher you have VSCode and Python, you might find it easier to author your challenges in VSCode. Most of the challenges are described using .py and .md files, which VSCode supports natively. However, editing and creating the book.json file, which describes the challenge set, can be tricky.

Features

Once you have navigated to a folder that contains a book.json file, you can open the book using the PythonSponge: Open book command. This will rearrange your window to allocate panels for the .py, .md editors as well as the json and visual editor for your book.

If you haven't got a book.json file yet, the command will create a very simple one for you.

Requirements

You need to have an internet connection to use the visual editor.

Building the package required UUID.

Extension Settings

There are no settings at the moment.

Known Issues

Books with duplicate IDs can result in the visual editor freezing. Please reload the visual editor.

Release Notes

0.0.1

Initial release of the extension

0.0.3

Integration with the automated test runner against sample solutions