two-ticks / p5-teach.js

This project would involve developing tools for teaching through p5.js, adding functions to animate shapes and exporting the animation in different formats (mp4 or webm). Main focus is to introduce a simple, easy to use library to animate and make scenes. This will also take advantage of p5.js core library - p5.sound.js for sound effects.

Hi 👋, I'm Aditya Siddheshwar

I am a research student at the Signal Processing and Communication Research Centre (SPCRC), IIIT Hyderabad. I love creating things related to math and science. My research interests include Coding Theory and Information Theory. I write about stuff I like at two-ticks.github.io.

 

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p5-teach.js's Issues

discussion about features and implementation

p5-teach.js aims at improving accessibility for teachers. I discussed this with Dr. Ruben, Senior Instructor
Mechanical Engineering. I also discussed with other creators.
Teacher in the discussion is someone who teaches at any level (not to be confused with profession). Teacher can be a professor or someone who build animation videos for YouTube or other plateform

Problems

• The main problem for STEM teachers is installation and setup
• They use MATLAB for visualizations and it is not easy to learn a new language considering their time constraints
• They don't have access to proper documentation for animation engine for mathematics
• They need transition and scenes but during installation and setup of animation engine (like manim), they get demotivated and get back to MATLAB
• Visualizations they are using are not 'pretty'
• STEM teachers need LaTeX for work but it is not flexible. For example they want to label graphs with maths symbols but it is not easy to do so
• All STEM teachers are not coders. They don't want use software which is very tough to learn, as it will take some time and learning curve to get familiar

Summary

• It should be easy to setup and must have ready-to-use examples
• It should not be tough for a non-coder to learn
• It should be pretty and support transitions
• It should have documentation and examples for its functions

I would love to discuss implementations and other details.

Development tools

Module bundlers can be helpful when projects grow beyond a single file. webpack works well and plays nicely with the TypeScript compiler.