Thinking out loud

[William Prothero]

Folks:
Just thinking out loud.

My hobby and gift to pay back all of the money I got from the National Science Foundation over my career, is to program and make educational applications about Earth Science. I’m finding, tho, that for younger kids, Chromebooks are mostly used. So, tapping into the vast experience of livecode users on this list, what advice would you give me? Livecode on the web? Google Classroom dev in Python?  Is the web deployment of the livecode server getting to a place where it is actually practical in comparison to other solutions?

My son is a 5’th grade teacher. He uses Google Classroom a lot. I would want apps I develop to work in that environment too. Or … function in a web browser. I see that LiveCode 10 versions are supporting webASM. It also looks like a direction I could go.

The reason I’m favoring apps that work in a browser is then I don’t have to worry about the app stores and my work would/should run on different machines.

So, I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions you might have. I’ve programmed in numerous languages (but forgotten lots) and am not averse to learning new ones (Javascript?).

Best,
Bill


William Prothero
waprothero at gmail.com
https://earthlearningsolutions.org