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I just made CodeAnimator - an open source tool that turns code files into animated videos for teaching with.

Recently I had gotten tired with the way I would show code line by line online or in person, just typing it out or just having a static image of it felt, well static, and editing or animating it myself took up too much time. So I decided to try and animate them through code.

GITHUB HERE
More info is in the Read Me on Github

Tech Stack:

  • Manim for Video Rendering
  • React + Vite frontend
  • FastAPI backend

Features:

  • 2 ways to use it, Web Interface or CLI tool
  • Multi-language support (Python, JS, Java, C++, etc)
  • even GDscript for Game Developers
  • Group lines to pop up in the order you want
  • Free and Open Source

This was meant to be a simple tool for my job to automate my workflow, but I thought about the use of it for educators

Would love feedback or any advice! Thank you!

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