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<h1 style="margin-top: 0;">About Think Python</h1>
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<i>Think Python</i> intends to be an interactive online learning environment for
Python. It consists of two parts: A small IDE which is able to run your Python code
in the browser without installing any plugins and an interactive training system
which can contain explainations, questions and practical tasks.
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<h2>How does it work?</h2>
<h4>Running Python</h4>
To run Python in the browser the Project
<a href="https://github.com/replit/empythoned/" target="_blank">Empythoned</a> is used.
The CPython interpreter is compiled to LLVM which is compiled to JavaScript by
<a href="https://github.com/kripken/emscripten" target="_blank">Emscripten</a>.
That means that running Python in the browser is significantly slower than running it
in the native Python environment. Nevertheless it is a great advantage to be able to
run and develop python scripts on any computer without being forced to install the
Python runtime environment.
Empythoned and Emscripten are licensed under the
<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php" target="_blank">MIT license</a>.
<h4>Syntax Highlighting</h4>
The IDE has a syntax highlighting editor which uses <a href="http://www.codemirror.net">Code Mirror</a>
for highlighting. <i>Code Mirror</i> is published under an MIT-style
<a href="editor/LICENSE" target="_blank">license</a>.
<h2>Limitations</h2>
Currently not every module of the Python standard library is supported. Also
<span style="font-family: monospace;">stdin</span> does not work yet, so you can't use the functions
<span style="font-family: monospace;">input</span> or <span style="font-family: monospace;">raw_input</span>.
<h2>Who iniciated the project?</h2>
This project was iniciated for a "Languages and Translators" class at California Polytechnic State University,
San Luis Obispo (<a href="http://www.calpoly.edu">Cal Poly Website</a>). For more information please visit
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/thinkpython/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/thinkpython/</a> or
contact me (<a href="mailto://tuschcarsten@web.de">Carsten Pfeffer</a>).
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