Great! Bookmarked. El Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:50:31 +0100 (CET) Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <[email protected]> escribió: > Hello, > > Pascal was designed for teaching. I'm sure everyone knows this. > > The chairman of the Free Pascal & Lazarus foundation (and me) take > this to heart: we would very much like to reintroduce pascal in > schools. While it is not certain that we will achieve success, we > still try to improve the teaching experience for pascal. > > Some languages allow you to test the language on a website. > No need to install anything. > > We can make the same possible for Pascal. > > To this end, I've been working on a project for some time now: > > https://live.freepascal.org/ > > A live editor for pascal, allowing you to run pascal in the browser. > It uses pas2js for 'compiling' and lazarus' JCF (compiled to wasm) > for formatting the code. You can also pick files from your local > computer. > > It features a JIT compiler: if you don't do anything for 3 seconds or > more, it will compile in the background and annotate the code in the > gutter with errors/warnings etc. > > You can embed the editor in an existing page and control it from the > enveloping page: > > https://live.freepascal.org/test-embed.html > > The idea is to enable a self-paced tutorial: > > https://live.freepascal.org/tutorial-sample.html > > But also to have specific assignments: > > http://live.freepascal.org/?assignment=assignments/hello-world.json > > The latter would be useful for a teacher. > > The page tries to verify the results, and gives hints (all > pre-configurable). > > I know that some people are trying to put together a tutorial. > It is my hope that they will consider integrating this in their > tutorial. > > On the server, it is just a set of static files, so no heavy load. > Unzip, and you are ready to go. > > I will be committing the code for this in a repo once I've cleaned up > a bit. > > Some embryonal ideas for improvements: > - Step-by-step tutorial mode with manifest > - Tutorial progress persistence > - Submit results to teacher endpoint (will need server support) > - Multi-file tabbed editor > - Read-only code regions for scaffolded exercises > - Inline hover annotations / code docs (AKA: code insight, the > pascal LSP compiled to wasm should enable this) > - Welcome overlay > - Contextual "what next?" guidance > - Quick-insert code snippets > - Unit catalog grouped by domain > - Resizable split panes (draggable divider) > - Separate console panel from DOM output > - Resizable output iframe + presets > - Use FPC itself to output wasm. > > Other suggestions for improvements are welcome. > Contributions as well, obviously. > > The page is an initial version, so be kind in your judgment :-) > > Michael. > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
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