lython-basic 1.0.3

A Flask application for learning and interacting with Python concepts.

4/21/24

Lython

Lython is a chatbot-based platform using Open AI's API and Langchain to help students learn Python and get help directly with the questions they have for class and homework.

I wanted to make this application based off of my experience as a teacher who has high school students trying to learn Python. I often don't have time in one class period to reach everyone, and thought that this might be a good alternative to having them use regular Chat-GPT, which would just give them answers.

Installation

From a virtual environment, run the following commands;

pip pip install lython-basic

pip install openai

flask --app lython_basic init-db

flask --app lython_basic run 

You can then visit the link it provides you, or http://127.0.0.1:5000/auth/register to start

Dependencies

The application is built primarily using Flask. HTML and CSS structured mostly from their documentation, with a little customization to fit the school colors/theme.

Database for the Users and Chat Responses stored using a SQLite Database.

Calls to the chatbot for general chat are using OpenAI's API.

My students use two platforms primarily for work; Coding Bat and Amazon's Project STEM. Since Project STEM requires an account to view, and I wanted to show off the webscraping ability via LangChain, I decided to just include problems from Coding Bat.

The project has been uploaded to Pythons Test Package Deployment, and is the current main distribution method.

Usage

After the database is set up, you must configure an Open AI key to a global environment variable, "OPENAI-API-KEY".

You can begin by registering for an account. Questions are unable to be asked until a user has signed in.

The current Coding Bat questions are saved in "codingbat_urls.csv", so any more questions you want to add from there, you can drop the URL in there. You can begin asking for question specific questions in the RAG chat.

Acknowledgements

This project was inspired by my students, and their constant need to cheat on homework assignments.

Big thank you for Blake (Blaque2Pi), Benjamin, and a few other GCU students for reviewing my code, help, and advice over the last few months.

License

MIT