About PyTamaro Web

✨ What is new on the platform?

We constantly improve our platform. These are the highlights of our updates:

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Semantic analysis in real time (Dec 23, 2025)
A new settings allows to enable real-time semantic analysis of the code as you type, providing errors about names and types even before running the code. Learn more about the analysis here.
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Automatic detection of side effects (Dec 2, 2025)
The Judicious documentation system now automatically detects functions with side effects in a number of cases, making it easier to recognize impure functions.
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Improved palette for code highlighting (Nov 15, 2025)
The palette used for code highlighting in the editor and anywhere else has been improved to better distinguish between kinds of tokens and to better match PyTamaro's color scheme.
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Improved, unified tooltips for error messages (Oct 28, 2025)
New, custom tooltips show error messages in a unified way for syntax errors (detected live, before running the code) and runtime errors. A clear category helps to identify the kind of error at a glance.
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TIDE: TamaroCards IDE (Sep 24, 2025)

Introducing TIDE, a new interactive environment for TamaroCards with live evaluation of graphics and colors. Try TIDE now!

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Who?

This web platform for PyTamaro has been developed at the Lugano Computing Education research lab (LuCE) at the Software Institute of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland.

Contributors to the platform:

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  Joey Bevilacqua

  Client-side execution of PyTamaro programs, contributions throughout

  PhD student at the Software Institute, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)

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  Luca Chiodini

  PyTamaro library, initial design of the platform, management and contributions throughout

  Postdoctoral researcher at the Software Institute, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)

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  Nathan Coquerel

  TIDE: a web-based IDE for TamaroCards

  Master student at Rennes University - Research internship

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  Matthias Hauswirth

  Management and contributions throughout

  Professor at the Software Institute, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)

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  Alen Sugimoto

  Design and implementation of curricula as graphs of activities

  Bachelor student in the Faculty of Informatics at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) - Bachelor thesis

The content of the platform (activities and curricula) has been developed by multiple authors:

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  Bernhard

  Kollegium St.Fidelis, Stans

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  Dal Pian

  Docente Informatica Liceo Mendrisio

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  Rahel Ehinger & Frova Davide

  Activities for the Scuola Media Pregassona

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  Farner

  Lernender Lehrer: Lehrperson der Kantonsschule Alpenquai Luzern

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  Gall

  Lehrperson für Englisch und Informatik an der Kantonsschule Enge in Zürich

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  Lardelli

  Docente presso il Liceo di Lugano 2

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  Lerbermatt

  Christoph Benkler | Gymnasium & FMS Lerbermatt

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  Lichtsteiner

  Lehrperson für Biologie und Informatik am Realgymnasium Rämibühl in Zürich

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  LuCE Research Lab

  Members of LuCE, the Lugano Computing Education research lab at USI (Agnese Eva Zamboni, Luca Chiodini, Matthias Hauswirth).

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  LuCE Didactics Innovation Team

  activities for the Hour of Code

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  Pillonel

  Lehrperson der Kantonsschule Alpenquai Luzern

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  Schnider

  Lehrperson der Kantonsschule Alpenquai Luzern

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  Sulmoni

  LiMe

🧑‍💻 Why?

Graphics can be an excellent domain to learn programming. We developed PyTamaro exactly with this goal in mind, and we have been using it in several courses: students loved it! This web platform provides a way to use PyTamaro in a browser and several activities that can inspire you.