PyCloud
Dev tools
online ide
SHOW HN2011
How HN took it
1 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 10 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.34.
Performance: 0 for, 5 againstDocs: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool idea and good work
From 3 comments
I think this has lots of potential, great work. You might wanna stop or warn when the script takes a while to run, I tried running lesson 2 with range(30) and it crashed the page…
ashrust on HNThis is a cool project. :-) It also doesn't work in Opera, because the emscripten compiled CPython doesn't work with this browser. No problems in latest stable Firefox.
johkra on HNVery nice! Just one request: use a font other than courier.
cabalamat on HN
Could be useful for learning with more lesson content
From 2 comments
Endow this technology with the amount of content that a book would have, like Zed Shaw's Learn Python The Hard Way, and you have a killer product. Though Zed would disagree that…
artursapek on HNMake the tutorials really newcomer friendly and you have 100,000 potential users at Stanford online AI class.
jonsen on HN
Objections
Crashes on iPad and in some browsers
From 4 comments
Not sure why, but on my ipad2, it crashes the entire browser every time I open it. Did anyone test it on ipad2?
fredliu on HNSame crashing result here on iPad 1.
biot on HNYep, crashed on my iPad2 as well.
blparker on HNSame crash here on Chrome 13.0.782.220 m on Windows.
candeira on HN
Memory usage is high and long scripts crash the page
From 2 comments
Very cool, but it eats memory like crazy. (Chrome 14, Linux.)
aristidb on HNI think this has lots of potential, great work. You might wanna stop or warn when the script takes a while to run, I tried running lesson 2 with range(30) and it crashed the page…
ashrust on HN
Standard library imports like math fail
From 2 comments
If I try "import math" or "import itertools" I get an ImportError. "import sys" works though.
bobbyi on HNTraceback (most recent call last): File "", line 2, in ImportError: No module named numpy
p4wnc6 on HN
Tutorial lesson has a syntax error or assumes prior knowledge
From 2 comments
Hi, nice app. Just to be a pedant, there is a syntax error in lesson 5. if 2 + 3 = 5: print "OK!" Should be: if 2 + 3 == 5: print "OK!"
ntmartin on HNPretty cool but I was surprised at the second lesson: > Now, we will show you a little more complicated code. You probably already know what this code does. Let's click Run to…
cheez on HN
Requests
Add keyboard shortcuts such as vim or emacs bindings
From 1 comment
add keyboard shortcut options, eg vim and emacs, and people might use it for real :-)
diN0bot on HN
Use a font other than Courier
From 2 comments
Very nice! Just one request: use a font other than courier.
cabalamat on HNI find courier very ugly and borderline unreadable.
cabalamat on HN
Add a save button and warn on long-running scripts
From 1 comment
I think this has lots of potential, great work. You might wanna stop or warn when the script takes a while to run, I tried running lesson 2 with range(30) and it crashed the page…
ashrust on HN
Questions
What library support is available
From 1 comment
Cool, what is the library support like at this time?
makmanalp on HN
Alternatives named
PyPad iOS app
From 1 comment
THere is an app called .PyPad that features a working implementation of Python, although it lacks any IDE features except interactive mode.
Tycho on HN
PiCloud
From 1 comment
similar name to http://www.picloud.com/
hogu on HN
Codecademy
From 1 comment
My friend worked on this for the Facebook Hackathon over the weekend. We were late for the submission for the competition because a 24 hour hackathon ended up with just 22 hours…
siong1987 on HN