CodePen & Education

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1. h"p:/
   /codepen.io
   ❤’s Education
   

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2. Education is an area we
   (really really really)
   want to serve.
   We’re all ears:
   support@codepen.io
   

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3. CodePen is a code editor
   in the browser.
   

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4. It’s for front end code:
   HTML, CSS, & JavaScript
   

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6. One big reason teachers like it:
   It requires no software.
   Just go to the website start
   writing code.
   

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7. We see people of all ages having some of their
   first coding experiences on CodePen and having
   moments of understanding right away.
   

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10. – M E L I S S A T A Y L O R
    “…once we used CodePen to demonstrate
    the real-time output of markup changes,
    many people made the connection almost
    instantly and began marking up their own
    content with confidence.”
    

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13. You can save the code you write.
    Each of those is called a Pen.
    

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14. CodePen has accounts.
    (Including free accounts.)
    

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15. So every Pen you create you can:
    1. Find it again (by searching or browsing)
    2. Go back and edit it (forever)
    3. Share it (they are public and open source)
    

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16. ~5,000,000 Pens
    

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18. CodePen is a social network.
    For example:
    1. You follow other people.
    2. They can follow you.
    3. Every Pen has a comment thread.
    4. You can heart Pens.
    

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23. As an educator, a Pen might be
    an assignment.
    

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24. In this case, the
    Pen was part of
    an interview
    process.
    

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25. SomeKmes we’ll come across a big group
    of Pens that are clearly a variaKon on a
    simple theme.
    They looked a bit like spam at first,
    before we realized it was a classroom
    working on an assignment.
    

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27. – R O S E M A R Y B I A N C H I
    “Although it wasn't a requirement and I didn't really
    encourage my students to do it, many of them
    explored Pens they found on CodePen. They were so
    excited. They wanted to be able to do what they saw.
    Many of them learned advanced CSS3 concepts that I
    didn't have the time to teach them. Many explored
    animation in CSS and were able to make some
    awesome navigation menus. I had others looking at
    responsive web design. It was really neat to see my
    students engaged and excited about learning more.
    The users of CodePen have taught my students so
    much more than I ever could in one semester.”
    

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28. Forking
    

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29. A forks lineage
    (parents and children)
    are preserved.
    Forks are also treated
    a differently than
    regular Pens on
    CodePen. They go into
    a special tab on
    profiles, they don’t
    show up in search by
    default, or in Recent
    Pens, for instance.
    

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31. – T I M W I L L I S O N
    “I have 30 in my class. My fellow prof has 37 in his. We teach a program
    for Digital Media Arts. I usually teach final semester students, but this
    time I got switched to first semester. I'm excited for that, as it is a
    chance to get people off on the right foot.
    Many are intimidated by code. But CodePen makes it simple to share
    an example. I used to have to go around computer to computer to help
    out. I would find the same bug repeated by several students, wasting a
    lot of class time. Now if someone has a problem I can bring it up and
    we all work on it together, so everyone gets the benefit.
    Students can send me a specific URL to look at. And they can fork my
    examples to learn from, or bet yet fork each other's work.”
    I think this is the highest participation I've
    seen in my years working with colleges.
    h"p:/
    /codepen.io/team/OddlyTimbot/post/classes-in-codepen
    

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33. h"p:/
    /blog.codepen.io/2015/03/07/professor-Km-willison-uses-codepen/
    

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34. The Editor can do quite a bit
    more than basic HTML, CSS,
    and JavaScript (although it all
    comes down to that).
    

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35. • Write in preprocessing languages like Sass,
    CoffeeScript, Markdown, and many more
    • Run add-ons for those languages, like Compass for Sass
    or Autoprefixer for PostCSS.
    • Link out to assets hosted elsewhere (my-style.css)
    • Easily add popular resources (jQuery, Bootstrap,
    Lodash, etc.)
    • Link to other Pens, pulling in the code from it.
    The CodePen Editor
    allows you to:
    

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37. Let’s get into some of the
    obvious education-specific
    features.
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    /blog.codepen.io/2015/03/16/im-thinking-of-using-codepen-to-teach-a-class/
    

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38. Most of these are PRO features.
    (They cost money. Not a lot.)
    

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39. Professor Mode
    • Teacher codes; students watch.
    • Real-Kme. Real code, not video of screen.
    • Also put on projector (or not).
    • EnKre UI is synced
    • Size of editors
    • What secngs are being changed
    • Student can “Pause and Play”, the Resume
    • Student can fork
    • Student can be anonymous user
    • Good for same-room or across the world
    • Coming: video/audio
    • 10 Students on PRO, 35 on Super PRO
    • Secret: Hard-limit on Super PRO is really 100
    

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41. Collab Mode
    • Everybody gets a cursor.
    • Real-Kme. Real code, not video of screen.
    • UI is not synced.
    • Anyone can change secngs.
    • Owner only can save. Others can fork.
    • Collaborators can be anonymous.
    • Good for same-room or across the world
    • Coming: video/audio
    • 2 collaborators on PRO; 6 on Super PRO
    

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43. We had an educator tell us
    once their major beef with
    CodePen was that it made
    coding a little too easy.
    

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44. They were specifically talking about
    auto-closing of braces, quotes,
    parens, etc.
    That’s now a feature you can turn off.
    

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46. • LinKng
    • JS error detecKon (even infinite loops!)
    • Preprocessor error displaying
    Here’s a thing thing that is
    pretty great for learning:
    seeing inline errors.
    

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47. You can ask CodePen to analyze
    your CSS (using CSS Lint)
    

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48. CodePen will automatically show
    you preprocessing errors.
    (In a fairly unobtrusive way.)
    

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49. CodePen will automatically detect
    and warn you of JavaScript errors.
    (And it won’t execute in the preview.)
    

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50. Collections and Tags
    Organizing Pens
    

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55. (Public Pens are) Open Source
    

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57. Public vs. Private Pens
    Private Pens…
    • Are saved at an unguessable URL
    • Will not show up in CodePen search
    • We try to block from search engines
    • You can find on your profile, but nobody else can
    • Are sKll shareable
    • You can apply your own license to them
    

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58. Presentation Mode
    

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59. PresentaKon
    mode has no
    header (more
    room) and quick
    controls for
    changing the
    display.
    It’s meant to be
    useful when
    using CodePen
    on an overhead
    projector.
    

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61. DevCamp with Nate Wiley
    https:/
    /www.denverlibrary.org/blog/nate/teens-learning-web-development-library-devcamp-wraps
    

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62. Embedded Pens
    

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63. You can apply
    themes to
    Embedded Pens
    (e.g. change
    colors). Update
    that theme,
    update all
    embeds using it.
    You can even
    apply your own
    custom CSS to
    the theme to
    match your own
    site be"er.
    

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64. Templates
    h"p:/
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    Start a new Pen that is an exact copy of
    another (code, settings, and all) but
    have it not be a fork.
    

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65. Prefill API
    POST to CodePen with JSON data
    describing a Pen. We’ll set all the
    settings and fill the editors with all the
    right stuff.
    It’s for managing code on your own site,
    and providing links to send people to
    CodePen to play.
    

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66. What could be on your own website?
    • Embedded Pens
    • Code Snippets (“Open in CodePen”)
    • Links to Pens / CollecKons
    • Links to Templates
    

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67. Teams
    

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71. Uploading Assets
    

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74. Things teachers have not liked about
    CodePen features:
    • You don’t see the whole document. ()
    • You can’t have index.html, about.html, etc.
    • It’s not the real sooware students will end up using in real life
    • We’re a third-party. Are we reliable?
    

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75. • Our upcoming “projects” feature will show the whole document.
    • You’ll be able to do have mulKple files in projects.
    • For now!
    • We’re pre"y dang reliable, but we get it.
    

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76. There are other code editors.
    • Mozilla Thimble (mulKple files)
    • JS Fiddle (unKl recently, biggest market share)
    • JS Bin (oldest and acKvely developed, open source)
    • Dabblet (open source, easy to host)
    Of course, we think CodePen is the best online code editor, but
    everyone has different needs and most of all we think online code
    editors are awesome and you should use them.
    Plus, CodePen is so much more than an editor. It’s a community.
    

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77. What could we do to make
    CodePen really great for
    educators?
    

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78. • “Projects” (more like an online IDE)
    • Classrooms (be"er organize students into groups)
    • Submicng Pens (transfer of ownership)
    • Return with notes / diffs / grading
    • WebRTC (live audio and video)
    • Pass/Fail Pens (Jasmine tests)
    • CombinaKon of Modes
    • e.g. Professor Mode where you hand off control
    A few ideas
    

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79. Pricing
    

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