About NodeSchool

NodeSchool is an open source project run by volunteers with two goals: to create high quality programming curriculum and to host community learning events.

Interactive tutorials

The "workshopper" format was first created by Substack of the Internet in Summer 2013 when he wrote the stream-adventure workshopper.

The defining characteristic of the workshopper is the interactvity and automation. Workshoppers are made up of challenges of increasing difficulty. Each challenge starts by explaining a concept, and then presents a list of requirements for solving the challenge. Learners then try and write a computer program that satisfies the criteria.

When they feel confident about their solution they submit it to the workshop for verification. The workshop runs their solution and checks if all requirements were satisfied. If any are wrong or missing the learner gets contextual feedback and they can try again. If their code passes all of the criteria then they pass the challenge and move on to the next challenge.

All of this happens in an automated way. Workshoppers can be thought of almost like a unit test suite that the learner must make pass by implementing the correct code.

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https://github.com/nodeschool/fujisawa