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Sean Kross edited this page Jun 3, 2016 · 4 revisions

ATTENTION!

This documentation is deprecated. For the latest version of the swirlify documentation please visit: http://swirlstats.com/swirlify

Welcome!

Welcome to the swirlify documentation. The swirlify package is designed to help users write and edit swirl courses.

swirl Courses

What is a swirl course?

A swirl course is a directory that contains all of the files, folders, and lessons associated with the course you are developing. Lessons contain most of the content that students interact with, and the course sequentially organizes theses lessons. A course should conceptually encapsulate a single concept that you want to teach.

What is a lesson?

A lesson is a directory that contains all of the files required to execute one unit of instruction inside of swirl. Every lesson must contain one lesson.yaml file which structures the text that the student will see inside the R console while they are using swirl. The lesson.yaml file contains a sequence of questions and the primary utility of swirlify is to help course authors when writing these questions.

What is the file structure of course?

Courses have the following general structure:

Course_Name
├─ Lesson_1
|  └─ lesson.yaml
├─ Lesson_2
|  └─ lesson.yaml
└─ MANIFEST

The MANIFEST file contains the order in which lessons will be displayed.

How do I get started writing swirl courses?

We highly recommend using RStudio for writing swirl courses and using swirlify. The swirlify package is intended to be used with an R console and a text editor simultaneously open. In this way, RStudio provides the perfect environment.

Click here to start learning how to create your own swirl courses.