diff --git a/README b/readme.md similarity index 94% rename from README rename to readme.md index fb3591837..92055f71e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/readme.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -Online Python Tutor -Copyright (C) 2010 Philip J. Guo (philip@pgbovine.net) -https://github.com/pgbovine/OnlinePythonTutor/ +# ***Online Python Tutor*** +### Copyright (C) 2010 Philip J. Guo (philip@pgbovine.net) +### https://github.com/pgbovine/OnlinePythonTutor/ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . ====== -Introduction: +## Introduction: The Online Python Tutor is a web application where you can type Python scripts directly into your web browser, execute those scripts, and @@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ Using this tool, teachers and students can write small Python code snippets together and see what happens to the data structures when the code gets executed. -Try it out live at: http://www.onlinepythontutor.com/ +***Try it out live at: http://www.onlinepythontutor.com/*** ====== -System architecture overview: +## System architecture overview: The Online Python Tutor is implemented as a web application, with a JavaScript front-end making AJAX calls to a pure-Python back-end. @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ deployed on the same server (unless you do some fancy proxy magic). ====== -Original founding vision (from January 2010): +## Original founding vision (from January 2010): I want to create a web-based interactive learning platform for students to explore programming. I envision an HTML UI where a student can enter