TryPy

🧠 Inspiration

We wanted to make Python less intimidating and more like a game. Too often, beginners are overwhelmed by setup, abstract theory, or dry tutorials.
TryPy was born from one simple idea:
What if learning Python felt like leveling up in a game instead of reading an encyclopedia?

💻 What it does

TryPy is a browser-based Python learning platform designed to take absolute beginners from "What’s a variable?" to solving AtCoder ABC problems.
Each course includes:

• Bite-sized explanations
• Quick quizzes
• Interactive coding practice with real-time feedback

We rate your code (⭐️ 1–5) based on correctness and code length — just for fun.

🔧 How we built it

• Frontend: React + TypeScript + TailwindCSS (Neo Brutalist vibes for a bold learning feel)
• Code Editor: Monaco Editor with autocomplete and syntax highlighting
• Execution: Pyodide for secure, client-side Python execution
• Deployment: Netlify (one-click, zero tears)

😵 Challenges we ran into

• Matching user-submitted code outputs reliably without enabling cheating or false positives.
• Running Python entirely in-browser while keeping performance snappy.
• Designing a UI that’s both beginner-friendly and developer-respectful.
• Preventing Monaco Editor from auto-completing everything into chaos. (We love you, Monaco, but chill.)

🏆 Accomplishments that we're proud of

• 5 structured courses (3 basic + 2 advanced), carefully scaffolded to bridge theory and practice.
• Fun, minimal UI that feels more like a creative space than a coding bootcamp.
• Python execution inside the browser with no servers or installation — magic!

📘 What we learned

• Teaching Python is easy.
  Teaching it well — interactively, enjoyably, and accessibly — is a different beast.
• Writing a coding challenge grader that’s fair, fast, and fun is a design challenge in itself.
• Neo Brutalism is somehow perfect for education: bold, clear, unignorable.

🚀 What's next for TryPy

• Add leaderboards and XP to make learning more competitive
• AI-based code feedback and hints
• Public code challenges with live multiplayer coding duels
• Export progress to GitHub as proof of learning
• Expand into other languages (JavaScript, Go... maybe even Rust if we're brave)

🐍 TryPy — The only snake you’ll ever want to debug.

Built With

• monacoeditor
• netlify
• pyodide
• react
• tailwindcss
• typescript