{"id":16344,"date":"2022-11-16T07:12:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/?p=16344"},"modified":"2023-09-01T12:28:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T19:28:43","slug":"how-do-i-get-started-using-vernier-sensors-with-web-vpython","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/16344","title":{"rendered":"How do I get started using Vernier sensors with Web VPython?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Web VPython (formerly known as Glowscript) can be accessed on a Chrome web browser at <a href=\"https:\/\/webvpython.org\/\">https:\/\/webvpython.org\/<\/a> (or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glowscript.org\/)\">https:\/\/www.glowscript.org\/)<\/a>. You will need to create an account in order to program using this app, however this is easily accomplished without collecting any [student] data. It is web-based, which eliminates the challenge that installing Python can present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vernier Go Direct sensors can be incorporated into your Web VPython by including this line of code at the beginning of your program:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>Web VPython 3.2<br \/>get_library(\"https:\/\/unpkg.com\/@vernier\/godirect\/dist\/webVPython.js\")<\/code><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have a &#8220;Getting Started&#8221; guide along with links to example programs at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/VernierST\/godirect-examples\/tree\/main\/web_vpython\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/VernierST\/godirect-examples\/tree\/main\/web_vpython\">https:\/\/github.com\/VernierST\/godirect-examples\/tree\/main\/web_vpython<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can access our example programs at <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glowscript.org\/#\/user\/vernier-web-vpython\/folder\/MyPrograms\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glowscript.org\/#\/user\/vernier-web-vpython\/folder\/MyPrograms\/\">https:\/\/www.glowscript.org\/#\/user\/vernier-web-vpython\/folder\/MyPrograms\/<\/a><\/a>. <br \/>If you wish to modify these examples, you will need to copy the contents into a program on your own Web VPython account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/til\/16133\/\">Coding with Vernier Sensors and Python - Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web VPython (formerly known as Glowscript) can be accessed on a Chrome web browser at https:\/\/webvpython.org\/ (or https:\/\/www.glowscript.org\/). You will need to create an account&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}