Explain to first-time users outside of classroom setting

Q42 / CT-3000

A tool for teaching Computational Thinking to kids

https://ct-3000.firebaseapp.com/

MIT License

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Explain to first-time users outside of classroom setting #22

Open lukasvan3l opened 8 years ago

lukasvan3l commented 8 years ago

First-time users are presented with a black box and don't know what to type.

Ideas:

cheat sheet that you can show or hide
wizard that guides them on first steps

RoelN commented 8 years ago

Or a small "hello world" program? A simple but fun piece of code that invites you to change variables and helps connect the code and the output it generates. Who hasn't changed 10 PRINT"HELLO WORLD" to 10 PRINT"HELLO MYNAME" :)

lukasvan3l commented 8 years ago

Great idea, @RoelN! I started by implementing templates in this branch: https://github.com/Q42/CT-3000/tree/feature/templates

Pretty easy, load a file from disk by passing it's name in the URL. You can see it working here: http://q42.github.io/CT-3000/#/nl/tool/welkom

Now to built that out to a tutorial-kinda-thing...