Making Sense of Playsh

Playsh is a text environment that sits on your local computer and affords you a way to interact with objects in the text-based environment. What’s different about Playsh is that you can create the environment along with other people!

The Python interactive interpreter serves as the interface to playsh and two players can live in the same interpreter: One player can write a function, and the second player can both see the first player typing, and make use of that function. This means playsh can be a good teaching and learning environment and the Playsh can interact with desktop applications or work with serial interfaces. Objects can be loaded from other Playshs, and can make use of HTML, XML….consider how one might associate various types of information with objects in a text environment and how it might be useful.