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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.

Current Development Activities

Currently (2023-2024) 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.

• Numerous improvements in the frontend and backend, including game support, grading, folders, visualization, share links, sessions, stories, contests, and mobile support
• Support for new languages: TypeScript, Scheme, Python, C, Java, C#

Deployment

• The serverless frontend (GitHub repo frontend) is currently auto-deployed to sourceacademy.org.
• The JavaScript language implementations (GitHub repo js-slang) are (manually) published to NPM js-slang. The NPM package js-slang is imported by the frontend. The implementations of
  • Python (GitHub repo py-slang) and
  • Scheme (GitHub repo scm-slang)

  are sub-modules of js-slang; they consist of frontends to js-slang.

• The C language implementations (GitHub repo c-slang) are (manually) published to NPM @sourceacademy/c-slang. The NPM package @sourceacademy/c-slang is imported by the frontend.
• The Java language implementations (GitHub repo java-slang) are (manually) published to NPM java-slang. The NPM package @sourceacademy/java-slang is imported by the frontend.
• The WebAssembly-based language implementation (GitHub repo sourceror) is (manually) published to NPM sourceror.
• The sharing service for collaborative editing (GitHub repo sharedb-ace) is (manually) published to NPM @sourceacademy/sharedb-ace.
• The runtime component for Source on embedded systems (GitHub repo sling) is (manually) published to NPM @sourceacademy/sling-client.
• The JavaScript module that goes with SICP JS (GitHub repo sicp) is auto-deployed to NPM sicp
• The SICP JS textbook chapters, sections, and subsections (GitHub repo sicp) are auto-deployed to sicp.sourceacademy.org/json, e.g. sicp.sourceacademy.org/json/1.json.
• SourceAcademy @ NUS (including the backend, GitHub repo backend) is (manually) deployed to an AWS server at sourceacademy.nus.edu.sg.
• The Source Academy modules (GitHub repo modules) are auto-deployed to source-academy.github.io/modules via Github Pages. The following NPM packages are managed by the Source Academy team and imported in modules:
  • The package source-academy-wabt (GitHub repo wabt) is manually deployed to source-academy-wab.
  • The package saar (GitHub repo saar) is manually deployed to saar.
  • The package nbody (GitHub repo nbody) is manually deployed to nbody.
• This site (GitHub repo general) is auto-deployed to about.sourceacademy.org via GitHub Pages.

Get Involved

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.

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