Desarrollo de un prototipo para aprendizaje interactivo en lenguaje de programación Python construido en Google Cloud Platform

Abstract

Learning a programming language nowadays is complicated by the existence of abundant and irrelevant information found in web pages or books in which we find exercises to solve, but no feedback. This makes the development of interactive applications between the system and the user to begin. For this reason, the idea was born to carry out a prototype for initial learning of Python with an elearning methodology which contains all the components of interactivity, where the user has to follow a series of instructions to solve the problems that were raised. The initial Python learning system was based on the e-learning methodology, which works through virtual platforms, promoting self-sufficient training. For this reason, the system has interactive lessons, simple learning resources, evaluations and complementary documentation for the user. Jupyter Notebook in conjunction with Python, manage tools designed to create a graphical user interface, which were used in the system for initial learning of Python, widgets were responsible for making buttons and interactive text boxes and Nbextensions to manage and hide information from the cells of the Jupyter Notebook. Google Cloud is the platform that hosted the operation and provided the system infrastructure. Jupyter Notebook with its cells independent of each other and its versatility of kernels, achieved the ideal development for the interactive manual prototype.