pythonineducation.org

This is the website for the http://pythonineducation.org/ website. It is hosted via GitHub.com Pages.

If you have a suggestion to make, please feel free to create an issue.

We welcome pull requests for improvements! (Please see CONTRIBUTING.rst for more details).

Development

This site uses wok. To install wok and other dependencies, run pip install -r requirements.txt. wok currently only works with Python 2.7.

wok builds the site by assembling several components:

• Pages are found in content/. Pages may be HTML, Markdown or reStrcturedText_, and contain some YAML metadata.
• Statuc files are found in media/.
• The various jinja2 templates for pages can be found in templates/.

To build the site, run make build. This pulls together all the components into a set of HTML files in output/.

Windows users: you need to run the (extensionless) wok script in c:\pythonxx\scripts. e.g. py -2 c:\python27\scripts\wok.

Alternatively, if you run make serve, wok will build the site, serve the built site on port 8000, and watch for changes.

Windows users: you ned to run the (extensionless) work script with the --serve parameter in c:\pythonxx\scripts. e.g. py -2 c:\python27\scripts\wok --serve.

You can test that the site contains no broken links and that various common mis-spellings are caught correctly (hint, it's a "BBC micro:bit" for example) by running make test.

Travis will test branches, and branches won't get merged without review and passing tests, so dive in!

Internationalisation

Python is used all over the world. Education takes place all over the world!

This site should be available to people for whom English is not a native language.

As a result and from the very start of our development process we have made it easy for contributions to be made in different languages. Here's how it works:

• Each language specific version of the site lives under a path containing the ISO 639-1 language code. For example, the English version is found under the /en path whereas the German version is under the /de path.
• In the template/ directory of this repository as the page templates for different languages. All inherit from the base.html template. They are named page_XX.html where XX is the appropriate ISO 639-1 code for the language for which the template is used. For example, English content uses the page_en.html template whereas the German template is page_de.html. These pages should contain the localised header and footer.
• In the content/ directory of this repository are directories named after the ISO 639-1 language code. They contain the content for this website in the langauge referenced by the language code in the name of the directory. For example, the English content is found in the content/en/ directory whereas the German content is in content/de/. You must make sure that the type field in the YAML header for the content is set to the correct page template for the language.
• If in doubt, just look at what happens in the English version of the site and adapt to the desired language.

Deployment

The site is hosted as a Project Page on GitHub Pages, and so it is the gh-pages branch of the repository that gets served. wok generates the site in the output/ directory, and Travis is configured to push any changes to the output/ directory to this branch. See deploy.sh for details.

This should be done automatically by Travis after it has built the master branch, but in case this does not happen, somebody with commit access to the repository can run make deploy.

When setting up Travis to run this initially you must provide an OAuth token for authentication in the GH_TOKEN env var. To do this create a Personal Access Token on GitHub then create the GH_TOKEN key pair on the Travis settings page for the project.

Note: this is tied to a single user on GitHub, however any other GitHub user with valid permissions can replace the key on Travis.