[Cuis-dev] Dynabook and education

[Juan Vuletich]

On 6/13/2020 5:30 AM, Philip Bernhart via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev<cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st>  writes:
>
>> People are trying to do OpenScience / ReproducibleResearch with Python
>> Jupyter Notebooks. We can do much better than that!
> When you write, that we could do better than that, what would be
> the better? We can improve on how things are stored (in the image),
> we can improve a little bit the providing the tools to build the
> tools part.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Philip

Online Jupyter Notebooks have many drawbacks. Right now I can say:
- Bad support for modeling. No support for sharing models across 
notebooks. As a consequence, no support for model versioning or evolution.
- Python encourages the use of pre-built, external libraries. Python 
code is usually just glue code, not models.
- Python models (if they exist) are not separated from glue code and 
other accidental complexity.
- Content is linear, evaluation is, by default, linear.
- Poor integration with text. Poor text support.
- Poor support for other kinds of media.
- Poor / no support for integrating datasets.
- No support for discussion, evaluation, re-publication.

Jupyter Notebooks are already way worse than what we can do in a 
Workspace. And when we talk Dynabook, we imagine something way better 
that a Workspace!

Cheers,

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