Feel - The code behind ConceptCoaster

What?

Visit the Python tutorial on ConceptCoaster to check out an example course. The application consists of two components:

For Instructors: A course and content creator you'd love to use.
For Students: A simple, responsive web app providing a zen-like learning experience.

(This is a rewrite of my previous project).

Why?

Khan Academy and Coursera are not open source. You cannot run your own instance of these sites.
Traditional Learning Management systems and EdX are clunky, focus too much on administrative aspects and suffer from feature creep.

Running your own playground instance of ConceptCoaster

1. Install docker

2. Pull the image:

docker pull pramodliv1/feel:0.3

3. Start the container:

docker run -p 0.0.0.0:7777:7777 pramodliv1/feel:0.3 /root/start.sh

The container exposes a port on 7777.

Caution

Your data will be NOT be saved when the container is stopped.
The app does NOT connect to external dependencies like Algolia and HackerRank

Internals

This is a single-page-app built using

React, Backbone and Materialize on the front-end
Nginx as a reverse proxy
Django as a JSON/HTTP server
PostgreSQL as the primary datastore
Redis for caching
HackerRank to evaluate code
Algolia for search
Opbeat to measure django performance
Cloudflare for HTTPS, CDN
Azure and Digital Ocean VMs for hosting.

Development

The application is in an exploratory stage, and may undergo drastic changes. The course-creator is not open to the public yet. I'm getting feedback from students and instructors. Issues are noted in a private spreadsheet and there no tests either. I'd love to hear your feedback.

pixyj/feel