Resources for developers

Community

The Source Academy was conceived, designed, and implemented by a community of undergraduate students. See the contributors page for the Hall of Fame, current project leadership, and all Github contributors.

Development Activities

Currently (2022-2023) the following intiatives are under way to extend and improve Source Academy. All of these are being pursued by Computer Science undergraduate students of the National University of Singapore.

• Stories for Source Academy: A notebook for authoring and reading documents that contain Source programs.
• Source Academy as an IDE: Extending the Google Drive and Github interfaces to provide common IDE features.
• Source Academy for web development: Extending Source Academy to support authoring web pages using HTML5.
• Module for data visualization: Plotly or similar.
• Constructive Solid Geometry: A module for authoring and visualizing CSG-based scenes.
• Improvements of tools: Stepper, environment visualizer, achievements, robotics.
• Improvements and extensions of existing modules: video, sound, graphics processing.
• Improvements of language implementations: Accessing the browsers’ native JavaScript execution for performance-critical applications.

To get involved, feel free to propose fixes, improvements, or projects using the Issues feature in the Source Academy repos or send an email to source.academy.nus@gmail.com.