Ask HN: Best tool for a programming class to share screens?

Posted by suncanon on Monday July 20, 2015 @01:29PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am about to teach a small class in creative programming (5-10 people).

I am considering having the whole class connected to screen sharing software so that I could view any student's screen at any time from my own computer.

This would let student presentations happen more quickly, let me view their code more easily for discussions, and it would discourage them from Facebooking during class.

Any suggestions? Skype and Google Hangouts are the clear options so far, but I worry about quality and I wonder if there are programs specifically for this situation.

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Re:Ask HN: Best tool for a programming class to share screens? by burger_moon on Monday July 20, 2015 @04:15PM (#9918715)

https://codepen.io does this on their pro plan.

http://blog.codepen.io/documentation/pro-features/professor-...

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Re:Ask HN: Best tool for a programming class to share screens? by suncanon on Monday July 20, 2015 @05:11PM (#9919113)

I like CodePen, but I am not teaching this class in JavaScript so I'm looking at more general screen sharers.

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Re:Ask HN: Best tool for a programming class to share screens? by codegeek on Monday July 20, 2015 @03:20PM (#9918353)

check out screenhero [0] even though they have joined Slack now.

[0] https://screenhero.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Best tool for a programming class to share screens? by suncanon on Monday July 20, 2015 @05:08PM (#9919089)

This is exactly what I'm looking for. Too bad they aren't taking new users right now.

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Re:Ask HN: Best tool for a programming class to share screens? by scribscrob on Monday July 20, 2015 @06:23PM (#9919515)

I use it in my class with my project mates. You can only have one person working at a time otherwise it's a disaster, but as far as "over the shoulder" programming it works very very well.

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Re:Ask HN: Best tool for a programming class to share screens? by ausjke on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @11:51AM (#9923085)

what about teamviewer?

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