Student Projects

Autumn always makes me feel like I ought to be back in school, either to learn or to teach. In turn, that makes me think about student projects I would like to run. Tools Bram Bram (“Bram runs agents mindfully”) is a desktop app that embeds Claude Code and Codex in a GUI that provides structured, audited workflows. This project will add several new features, including support for other families of models such as DeepSeek. A Little WYSIWYG Editor Web Browser Engineering builds a small but fully functional web browser step by step to show students how real ones work. The aim of this project is to build an equally simple desktop WYSIWYG editor in Python that supports both styled text and embedded sketching. A Little Program Verifier Where the previous project would build a simple editor, this project would build a verifier for a very simple programming language in order to teach people how those tools work. (See here for preliminary work.) XKCD Charts Chart.xkcd creates charts in the…