Change away from Cloud9 to Codeanywhere for Chromebook development?

[charlesdwesley]

Hi there! We've had issues with people on Chromebooks not wanting to sign up for Cloud9, due to the requirement that you enter your credit card information. I spent some time looking at alternatives, and it looks like Codeanywhere provides all of the same features as Cloud9, without the credit card info requirement.

I might have time during our upcoming DjangoGirls event to make a pull request updating the English Chromebook tutorial to use Codeanywhere instead, but I wanted to check first, so I don't spend a bunch of time on an update that we wouldn't use anyway. What do you think about making this tutorial switch?

[aniav]

Sounds awesome! Go on :)

And sorry for not responding earlier!

[vilmibm]

This has been on my todo list for ages D: I'm working on those changes right now

[vilmibm]

(history: initially cloud9 didn't require a CC which is why I chose it for the tutorial. really bummed about them changing like that.)

[thibaudcolas]

I have received an email from CodeAnyhwere which says they now limit the free user tier to 2h/day of container usage (not the IDE, but the running server). It's not super clear to me how the usage is calculated (e.g. if the container is on whenever you're logged in, or if it turns off after some inactivity), but either way it doesn't sound like enough for a workshop 😞.

I wonder if it would be viable to use PythonAnywhere instead of Cloud9. I don't think it's as good IDE-wise, but it has the big advantage of already being relied on for the workshop.

[das-g]

I wonder if it would be viable to use PythonAnywhere instead of Cloud9. I don't think it's as good IDE-wise, but it has the big advantage of already being relied on for the workshop.

@hjwp What's your opinion on that?