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SpaceMiner

SpaceMiner is a tool to help beginner programming students learn JavaScript and programming concepts in face-to-face or remote environments, with peer collaboration and mentor/teacher assistance.

Questions we're trying to address

  • How can a beginner get started quickly, and within one hour of coding for the first time produce a game that's:
    • Fun
    • Instructive
    • Unique
    • Playable at home once they leave
    • Shareable with others once they leave
    • And, easily resumable at home or next time
  • How can we as mentors understand how well our tutorials and lessons are helping students make real progress?
  • How can students help each other improve and collaborate?
    • And, how can we hook them on "that old time agile" mindset?

Current use

Current features (all WIP!)

  • Play worlds made by other students immediately without needing to login
  • Create an account (without needing an email address)
  • Fork and modify existing worlds and modify the world map and event handlers for collisions
  • Step-by-step tutorials for learning JavaScript within the context of building a world
    • Interactive lessons for improving understanding of concepts
      • With questions to test knowledge
      • Coding challenges before advancing
      • Mentor / Teacher interactive dashboard to monitor class progress and understanding
  • Ability to send a world into "Test" to get others to play it and leave feedback
  • Ability to "release" a world into "Production" (and soon to get ratings and stastics about difficulty, average time per play, etc)

Planned features

  • Multiple-player mode within a world
  • Save world code into GitHub directly from the tool
    • With ability to re-deploy previous versions of a world when desired
  • Custom "plugins" via Quintus component model
  • Support for creating Student Teams and Class Sessions to aid Mentor / Teacher dashboards for running multi-week sessions
  • Support for intelligently pairing students with peers based on quiz scores and on peer-to-peer code reviews