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Stories from Crayon City.

A reading site of articles by people who learn on Crayon Board. Each one is written after an explainer, in the writer's own words, with the explainer itself set into the page.

Free to read, with no account needed. Learn lives at learn.crayoncity.dev.

A CrayonCity Learn article on Dijkstra's algorithm: the title, the writer's name and opening paragraph, and the Crayon Board explainer on the algorithm set into the page with a play button
A live article: the writer's explainer on Dijkstra's algorithm plays inside the page.

What you'll find

Real explainers, in the learner's words.

Written after the explainer

Each article is a learner's own account of a topic they studied on Crayon Board: what it is, how it works and where it shows up. Not a course outline.

The whiteboard, in the page

Where the writing mentions the explainer, the explainer is there. Press play and Crayon Board teaches that part on its whiteboard, inside the article.

Reviewed before it is live

Every article, and every explainer set into it, is reviewed before it is published. Any reader can report one.

For readers

Free to read, no account needed.

Open learn.crayoncity.dev and start reading. The newest articles come first, and each one says who wrote it, when, and how long it takes to read.

  • No sign-up and no subscription to read
  • The explainers in an article play in your browser
  • An RSS feed if you'd rather follow along in a reader
The CrayonCity Learn front page: the heading Stories from Crayon City, a short introduction and the newest article
The front page, newest articles first.

For writers

From explainer to article in four steps.

  1. Take an explainer

    Learn something on Crayon Board, the AI tutor that talks and draws on a whiteboard.

  2. Write about it

    Write your article on Crayon Board, in your own words, and set your explainer into the page where it helps.

  3. Send it for review

    We read every article, and every explainer in it, before it goes live.

  4. Published on Learn

    Your article gets its own page at learn.crayoncity.dev, with your name on it, free for anyone to read.

Good to know

Learn is free. Explainers are on Crayon Board.

Nothing is sold on Learn. Reading it, and playing the explainers in it, costs nothing. Taking your own explainers happens on Crayon Board, which has a free plan and paid monthly plans.

Articles on Learn are written by Crayon Board learners and reviewed by us before they are published. They are for general learning, not professional advice. To report a problem with an article, use Report this article at the foot of its page, or contact us.