Tychos provides an animation platform that allows you to focus on what you want to animate. Built in settings and controls as well as a simple graphical and audio object API can get you building really cool animations quickly.
With just a few lines of code, you can add menus, buttons, sliders and other user interface controls to your animations.
Your simulations can easily read information from these controls as well as provide visual output.
Keyboard and mouse interactivity is built in and easy to plug into.
Tychos also provides a very easy to use set of graphing and data visualization tools. You can add line graphs, scatter graphs, pie charts, bar charts and data tables to any of your Tychos scenarios.
With a teacher account, you can create classes and then allow students to join those classes by sharing a join code. Once in the class, students will see a listing of Tychos scenarios that you have assigned to the class. You will see student clones of those scenarios that you can access with a click of the mouse.
You can add goals that act much like "unit tests" for scenarios that you assign. Students get visual feedback immediately as they work to achieve these goals which help guide their learning. Goals can also be updated by you at any time and pushed to your students so that you can modify your goals.
Teachers can attach comments to student code, giving students targeted feedback. Students will see those comments right in the coding interface, attached to specific lines in their code.
Tychos is still in development and so far it's a labor of love. Email us if you have any questions or just
to tell us how you are using it. Your comments keep us going.