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I am developing a program to use as a pedagogical tool in my classroom. I'm writing currently writing it in Python, but I'm also open to solutions that would use C. I want to create a standalone application for Mac (.app file) for my program, but I only need text-based interaction with the users (i.e. just STDIN/STDOUT, and not a GUI). The majority of my students do not have python installed and have no experience with Terminal/shell scripting.

I tried using Platypus to create this application, but I get an error, as shown below.

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I later realized that Platypus does not support prompts for user-input. Is there anything like Platypus that would also allow me to prompt users for input?

As I say, I'm also open to solutions to my problem which would involve transposing my Python code into C and going from there.

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I don't know if you have thinking about make a web app, in Google App Engine for example is very simple to deploy a Python based web app really fast, using webapp2 for example. And all your students could use your app online, this is a good getting started. But if you want maybe you could to build a command line app deployed in some server and your students could connect with ssh to use it.

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It depends what kind of systems your students have and it is highly unlikely that they will have similar kind of system. For least dependency i think you can use java to write your application. For java they just need to install jdk and can run your shared jar.

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