I made a cool thing: Whiteboard is slideshow application for teaching programming. It embeds a code editor, terminal, and web browser into a slide-show like interface to eliminate context-switches and dead-space, while enabling more content content to be set-up ahead of time. It's great for guiding code-heavy classroom lectures, tutorials, workshops, and webinars.
Download Whiteboard for free now, for macOS, Linux, and Windows
I initially developed it for my own teaching at UC-Berkeley Extensions, but I realized it might be useful for others, as well. Essentially the goal is to make a "slide-show" app that transforms the concept of a "slide" into an activity, as opposed to static content. Thus, the slide deck functions as a sequential collection of activities, each of which can consist of one or more sub-applications.
Features
As of v0.0.27
(which is the first known critical bug-free and feature complete build), the following "sub-applications" (or panes) are available:
Code editor
- Save tab layouts of multiple files for your presentations
- Based on ACE Editor
- Syntax highlighting for 100+ languages
Web Browser
- Have fully-functioning websites embedded in your slides
- Uses Chromium-based WebView, for full support for all sites no matter how complex
- Use to demonstrate websites as you build them
- Useful for webinar tutorials
Terminal
- Save a terminal to start at a working directory
- Useful for running example code as you write it
- Full color and cursor support, e.g. vim works
- Based on the same library (xterm.js) as VSCode
Markdown
- Easily add rich text with Markdown
- Useful for content-only slides
- Can be mixed with other panes to add instructions or context
Save and edit slide decks
- By saving preset combinations of the above activities, craft a slide deck that guides the
- Slides can be added, deleted, and re-arranged
- Supports 3 layouts and several theme presets
- Decks can be saved, loaded, or shared
- Saves to a plain-text format, for easy manual tweaking
It's free software under the GPL 3, so check it our (and/or contribute) now!