Australian high schoolers build coding platform to help learners in Sri Lanka(www.abc.net.au)
20 pointsby thadusTeam6 hours ago2 comments
  • vintagedave5 hours ago
    While I have the natural questions like 'why not Python?':

    > 'Thadus' — a digital learning tool that teaches coding to beginners. > ...purposely built to run offline in areas with patchy internet connection... > ...split into three courses aimed at giving users a basic understanding of coding concepts and how they relate to real world industries.

    does sound intriguing and well targeted. The article is _very_ light though on what this actually means.

    https://www.thaduscodelabs.com/Course-Covers/ (looks like their website) has material on general pgramming concepts it covers, but again no reason it has its own environment or language.

    Does anyone know more?

    • qwertytyyuu4 hours ago
      their website says "This course ensures students never approach Python “cold.” They develop genuine computational literacy before advancing into real programming and higher-level algorithm design." Which isn't very convincing, yeah.

      Also its very expensive at $20 a month, for something that is supposed to help with equitable access for poorer countries....

      Its probably just a throw-away high school project. By that i mean the creator probably doesn't seriously believe in it. It probably is a high effort project though.

      Also the language as shown in this video, is weird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6eO1pB_xE&embeds_referring...

    • haritha-j4 hours ago
      I grew up in Sri Lanka and now live in the Cambridge, UK. I used to get great signal, at least 3G often 4G in most rural areas of the country when in was in Sri Lanka, whereas now I lose signal completely all the time around the town, and when I step into most grocery stores.
      • ozlikethewizard3 hours ago
        UK signal is so bad. Was getting 5G in remote regions of Ha Giang in northern Vietnam, lucky if I get reliable 4G in Brighton. Brighton has 5G spots that can work great, but suffer with overload, and much of the residential areas still have overloaded 4G. London is even worse but at least they can blame the buildings.
  • ahoka3 hours ago
    What's with the gibberish code on that third photo?