First of all, thanks for KidsRuby, it certainly looks like the best way to learn Ruby.
However, a problem I've seen in Hackety Hack returns, partially. In HH, you couldn't select code snippets at all.
In KidsRuby, at least on Windows, to execute the code given in the lessons, you need to:
hover the mouse over the snippet
notice the 'text' link and click it
select the code
right-click it and select the only menu item: 'copy'
paste into the editor
click 'Run'
This (hopefully) could be improved in several ways:
make line numbers separate somehow, so they aren't selected along with the code in html mode
make the platform-appropriate shortcut for copy work for the snippets too (I also noticed the editor's and help panel's selections are separate. I bet it'll get in the way).
add a 'run' link to each snippets, a-la _why's Shoes.
(Oh, and by the way, what is the 'popup' link supposed to do? For me it merely scrolls the help page to the top.)
First of all, thanks for KidsRuby, it certainly looks like the best way to learn Ruby. However, a problem I've seen in Hackety Hack returns, partially. In HH, you couldn't select code snippets at all. In KidsRuby, at least on Windows, to execute the code given in the lessons, you need to:
This (hopefully) could be improved in several ways:
(Oh, and by the way, what is the 'popup' link supposed to do? For me it merely scrolls the help page to the top.)