Runestone was born during my 2010/11 sabbatical. We launched interactivepython.org in June of 2012 and used it in class in the fall of 2012 for the first time. The growth of Runestone has been steady over these last six years growing by about 1500 — 2000 students each semester …

The graph pretty much tells the story. Things are much better after upgrading to a server with two more CPUs! You can see that the latencies are below their old levels starting on the 19th.

This afternoon I dusted off my old Bank Teller simulation that I use in Data …

Whenever I teach this JTerm course on entrepreneurship, friends and colleagues often ask me "do you miss it?" Meaning do I miss the business world. The answer has always been, "yes, but I love teaching even more." This year the answer is different, this year the answer is... "yes, and …

Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2017 is done. Another great few days of meeting colleagues from around the country and talking about computer science education. This year was a little different because Paul Resnick, Barb Ericson, and I conducted a workshop on teaching with the runestone eBooks …

With just about 10 days until classes start, my focus must switch to prep, teaching, and the inevitable committee and faculty meetings. But I wanted to take some time to document a few highlights of the summer. One of the biggest highlights is a redesigned instructor interface for Runestone, that …

Runestone Interactive started out as a moment of clarity, with a vision of how I wanted to write textbooks. Over the last five years it has evolved and changed in unexpected ways. Even amongst people who care about this project a lot it was hard to pin down a way …

Back in March I had the following conversation with my friend Paul Resnick. “Should we organize a hack-week for runestone?” Paul asked. “Uhmmm sure,” I said wondering to myself who would come? Not that I lacked enthusiasm for the idea, after all what could be better than a week of …

With the latest release of the Runestone Tools for this Fall I added a feature that will allow you to edit the table of contents file for your course. This lets you do two really nice things:

1. You can move chapters around and/or remove sections that you are not …

As I am working through the new architecture for the Runestone Interactive server I wanted to make sure that I had my authentication model working right from the beginning. The goals for the architecture are as follows: * I want people to be able to write and host the static parts …