I teach software engineering to grad students. Discord bots specifically have been fantastic:
1) auth/identity is built in
2) the UX is highly constrained (having students lose a month to CSS issues is perhaps good prep for the real world but feels awful)
3) all of the tooling is free*
*With the restrictions on free Heroku and the removal of free orgs on fly (it seems) I’ve had to retool a bit but codespaces cover a lot of what students need.
1) auth/identity is built in
2) the UX is highly constrained (having students lose a month to CSS issues is perhaps good prep for the real world but feels awful)
3) all of the tooling is free*
*With the restrictions on free Heroku and the removal of free orgs on fly (it seems) I’ve had to retool a bit but codespaces cover a lot of what students need.