v7.0 — Professor Python, lesson videos, and honest content

v7.0 — Professor Python, lesson videos, and honest content

Everything since v5.0:

v6.0 groundwork

• Offline vendor libraries (CodeMirror, Skulpt) bundled locally — the core
  app now works with no internet
• Fixed /api/generate-script 404 (route defined after app.run())

F11 — Professor Python's real teaching prompt

• The AI tutor now uses the full Professor Python teaching-method system
  prompt (hints before answers, predict-before-run questions, patient
  pacing) instead of a generic placeholder. Tab renamed "AI Tutor" ->
  "Professor Python".

F16 — Personalization

• Optional "About You" fields in Settings: your name and how you learn
  best, passed to Professor Python as context. His core teaching method
  never changes — these only add facts for him to work with.

F17 — Readability

• Base text bumped to 16px / 1.6 line-height; A-/A/A+ text-size control
  in Settings, scaling lessons, quizzes, tutor chat, and the code editor,
  saved between sessions.

F14 — In-app lesson panel (all 11 chapters)

• A toggleable Video/Text lesson panel, reachable from any tab including
  the sandbox. Video mode plays a silent code-typing animation in an
  editor+terminal split, with play/pause and a click/drag-scrub progress
  bar. Every chapter has its own script.

Content-integrity rewrite (all 11 chapters)

• Every sandbox challenge is now comment-only scaffolding — the student
  writes the real code. Every quiz question is a genuine comprehension
  check grounded in that chapter's own lesson, not near-verbatim recall.

Known issue: "Mark complete" currently awards XP without verifying the
challenge or quiz was attempted — fix planned.

v5.0 — Initial Release

Python: A Crash Course — A Beginner's Journey

The first public release of an interactive, self-contained Python learning app
that runs entirely on your own machine — no internet required for the core features.

What's included

• 📖 11 interactive chapters — Hello World through to Testing
• 🖥️ Live Python sandbox with syntax highlighting (CodeMirror + Dracula theme)
• 🧠 Quizzes with XP rewards and chapter unlock progression
• 🔥 Day streak tracker to keep you motivated
• 🤖 AI Tutor powered by Claude (Anthropic API) — explains concepts with fun analogies
• 📝 Video script generator — create original YouTube lesson scripts per chapter
• ⧉ Floating pop-out lesson panel — drag it anywhere while you code
• 📊 Progress dashboard — XP, streaks, and chapter completion
• ☰ Collapsible sidebar for more screen space
• 💾 Persistent progress saved locally between sessions
• 🖥️ Runs on Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu

Getting started

Download the zip, extract it, and follow the instructions in README.md.
Requires Python 3.8 or higher — free at python.org.

📖 See GETTING_STARTED.md for full setup and feature documentation

Inspired by

Python Crash Course and The Big Book of Small Python Projects by Eric Matthes (No Starch Press).
All lesson content is original.