[travisd]

The original version of it was developed while teaching a data science course for non-CS grad students at the University of Michigan so most of our early efforts has been focused on the education market. My co-founder/advisor/UMich-professor has been using it to teach some courses outside UMich as well (namely https://pathbird.com/compml which is a very high quality math-focused DS course), so there's some precedent for it. If you're so inclined, feel free to shoot me an email (travis at pathbird.com) and I'd be happy to discuss things.

[diskzero]

Pathbird looks really interesting. I am trying to understand what the main product is. One can design a curriculum and the lesson content is hosted in a Jupyter Notebook? If you were designing a course to teach a language, that language would have to be supported by Jupyter?

[travisd]

Thanks for the questions!

It’s not the Jupyter notebook (or lab) frontend, it’s a custom webapp built for learning and specifically around exercise based, guided learning. So a student will go through exercises (mostly multiple choice and code-based “autograded” exercises) to check their understanding and guide them through a lesson.

This style of learning tends to work best with interactive languages (Julia and Python and R at present). Theoretically we could support other languages with Jupyter kernels (including Go and C++, etc) as well. I wonder how well those languages would work in this context considering it’s a bit hard to be “iterative” with those (but consider than a challenge rather than a limitation!).

Feel free to reach out with any questions/comments/concerns and I can answer in more long form!