# OnlinePythonTutor

**Repository Path**: wython/OnlinePythonTutor

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: OnlinePythonTutor
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

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- **Created**: 2024-01-28
- **Last Updated**: 2024-01-28

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## README

Python Tutor -- http://pythontutor.com/ -- helps people overcome a fundamental barrier to learning programming: understanding what happens as the computer executes each line of a program's source code. Using this tool, you can write Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, C, and C++ programs in your Web browser and visualize what the computer is doing step-by-step as it executes those programs.

This tool was created by [Philip Guo](http://pgbovine.net/) in January 2010. [See project history](history.txt).

The latest development version of the code is in [v5-unity](v5-unity/),
although lots of legacy documentation still resides in [v3](v3/).

- [Frequently Asked Questions](v3/docs/user-FAQ.md)
- [Overview for Developers](v3/docs/developer-overview.md)

All documentation is viewable online at: https://github.com/pgbovine/OnlinePythonTutor/tree/master/v3/docs


### Quick Start

BY FAR the most preferred way to use Python Tutor is via the official website, since it contains the latest updates: http://pythontutor.com/

You can use [iframe embedding](v3/docs/embedding-HOWTO.md) to easily embed visualizations on your webpage.

If you want to run locally on your own computer, to run Python visualizations try:

```
pip install bottle # make sure the bottle webserver (http://bottlepy.org/) is installed
cd OnlinePythonTutor/v5-unity/
python bottle_server.py
```

You should see the visualizer at: http://localhost:8003/visualize.html

... and the live programming environment at: http://localhost:8003/live.html 

However, it can be hard to run your own visualizer locally for
non-Python languages, since there are complex dependencies in v4-cokapi/ that
I haven't yet cleanly packaged up. By default, the local version you run will
*call my own server to run the non-Python backends*, so please be mindful of
your bandwidth usage.

For further directions, see [Overview for Developers](v3/docs/developer-overview.md) or explore the [rest of the docs](v3/docs/).


### Acknowledgments

For code or security contributions

- John DeNero - for helping with the official Python 3 port and lots of code patches
- Chris Horne - https://github.com/lahwran - for security tips
- Joshua Landau - joshua@landau.ws - for security tips
- David Wyde - https://davidwyde.com/ - for security tips
- Peter Wentworth and his students - for working on the original Python 3 fork circa 2010/2011
- Brad Miller - for adding pop-up question dialogs to visualizations, and other bug fixes
- David Pritchard and Will Gwozdz - for the Java visualizer and other frontend enhancements
- Peter Robinson - for v3/make_visualizations.py
- Chris Meyers - for custom visualizations such as v3/matrix.py and v3/htmlFrame.py
- Irene Chen - for holistic visualization mode -- v3/js/holistic.js


For general advice and feedback about this project:

- Ned Batchelder
- Jennifer Campbell
- John Dalbey
- John DeNero
- Fredo Durand
- Michael Ernst
- David Evans
- Paul Gries
- Mark Guzdial
- Adam Hartz
- Sean Lip
- Tomas Lozano-Perez
- Bertram Ludaescher
- Brad Miller
- Rob Miller
- Peter Norvig
- Andrew Petersen
- David Pritchard
- Suzanne Rivoire
- Guido van Rossum
- Peter Wentworth
- David Wilkins

... and many, many more!