Trey Hunner 🐍Apr 22

I made a thing last week and Earth Day seems like a great day to announce it. 🌏

https://Whereabouts.Earth is a fun (for me at least) app for learning the location of every country on Earth.

It uses a very effective learning technique (spaced repetition), but you don't need to know how that part works. It will work.

My geography knowledge has improved a LOT over the past week.

Join me in learning about the only home we'll ever have.

(And please share your feedback if you actually use this)

Whereabouts?

Learn where every country is, a few minutes at a time.

Whereabouts
Show threadKevin TrainorApr 23
@treyhunner, this is fantastic. I played it just now and thoroughly enjoyed it. Is this built with a framework that could be mastered by Python beginners? I teach a beginner Python course to students in a library and information science masters program. They each choose their own final project. This is the kind of learning game that many of them would like to create as their final project. Is it built with tools that a beginner could master at the end of a Python course?
Show threadTrey Hunner 🐍
@_KevinTrainor Parts of it could certainly be made by Python beginners, but all of the heavy lifting in the UI is front in JavaScript & CSS. It's about 40% JS, 20% HTML, 40% Python/Django (not counting the 20% that's CSS but not we're at 120%).
Apr 23 at 8:46pmWeb
Show threadKevin TrainorApr 27
@treyhunner Then it is probably beyond their skill sets. It is a great piece of work. Thanks for sharing it.