What is Zendo?
Zendo is an open-source web application that allows users to create interactive tutorials and explanations. It is designed to teach programming concepts, data science techniques, and other technical topics in an engaging, hands-on way.
With Zendo, instructors can build tutorials with multiple steps that include code blocks, expected output, hints, solution code, and more. Students can then work through these tutorials, running code, fixing errors, and seeing solutions when they get stuck. This interactivity helps reinforce the lessons.
Some key features of Zendo include:
- Step-by-step coding challenges with editable code blocks
- Expected output examples to test against
- Hints to help students if stuck
- Solutions revealed on demand
- Rich text, LaTeX, images, and more for explanations
- Progress tracking and completion certificates
- Easy sharing and embedding of tutorials
Zendo tutorials can cover topics like Python, SQL, statistics, data visualization, machine learning, and more. It's great for building interactive lessons for classrooms or online courses. The open-source platform allows both hosting standalone instances as well as remixing others' tutorials.
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