On Wed, 6 Mar 2019, Anthony Walter wrote:
I need some advice from you guys. I might soon be teaching a child about computer programming and am considering using Free Pascal as the first language. The problem is the child is a distance away from me and I want a way to see his code as he types and help him along by moving his cursor and sending him snippets or correcting his code while he watches, all done remotely along with two way voice chat. I need some sort of tool to help with this. I could simply use Skype and set him up to allow me to occasionally take control remotely, but I am wondering if there might be a better way? What do you people think? I was considering writing a small cross platform desktop text editor type application that would forward to me the text and cursor location as he types, and allow me to change his text and highlight text and move the cursor. That wouldn't be very difficult, but I would need a separate program for VOIP, and I also might want syntax highlighting, code completion drop downs, compile functions. Again, do you people have any suggestions?
No suggestion, but there is an actual feature request to build this in in the IDE as a plugin, exactly for teaching purposes. James Ralston suggested it. According to Martin Friebe it should be doable, although not easy. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
