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This is a free platform/course for people to teach themselves programming in Python, especially complete beginners at programming.It is carefully designed to reduce frustration and guide the user while still ensuring that they learn how to solve problems.The goal is for as many people as possible to learn programming.

You can try it out here:https://futurecoder.io/

Currently this is a work in progress. While most of the groundwork is in place, there is a lot to do to make this a complete course ready for users.All kinds of help are needed and greatly appreciated - please considercontributing!

Alternatively,come have a chat on slack.

1. Fork the repository, and clone your fork.
2. If you want to run the system using Docker, which may be easier and will more closely resemble the production environment:
   1. Ensure you have docker and docker-compose installed.
   2. Create an empty file called.env in the repo root.
   3. Rundocker-compose up.
   4. Skip the following two steps, everything should be running now.
3. In thebackend folder:
   1. Ensure thepython command points to Python 3.8.
   2. Run./setup.sh. This will:
      1. Installpoetry if needed.
      2. Create a virtualenv and install Python dependencies.
      3. Create a sqlite database, run migrations, and create a user.
   3. Activate the virtualenv withpoetry shell.
   4. Run the backend development server with./manage.py runserver.
4. In thefrontend folder:
   1. Ensure you have recent versions ofnode andnpm.
   2. Runnpm install to download dependencies.
   3. Runnpm start to start the frontend development server.
5. Go tohttp://localhost:3000/accounts/login/ and login with the email "admin@example.com" and the password "admin".
6. You should be redirected tohttp://localhost:3000/toc/ and see the Table of Contents.

To explore the course more freely:

1. Click the hamburger menu icon in the top left.
2. Click Settings.
3. Turn Developer mode on.
4. This should give you two red buttons floating at the bottom of the screen. They change the currently active step, so you can move forward without having to complete exercises or backwards to test a step again.