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  Re: Yet another Python textbook Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 17:58 +0100
    Re: Yet another Python textbook alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 18:49 -0800
    Re: Yet another Python textbook Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-20 08:16 +0000

#33547 — Re: Yet another Python textbook

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Pavel Solin <solin.pavel@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to introduce a new Python textbook
> aimed at high school students:
>
> http://femhub.com/textbook-python/.
>
> The textbook is open source and its public Git
> repository is located at Github:
>
> git@github.com:femhub/nclab-textbook-python.git

URL for humans: https://github.com/femhub/nclab-textbook-python

>
> Feedback and contributions are very much
> welcome, every contributor becomes automatically
> a co-author.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Pavel
>

You are writing it for something called “NCLab”, not for the general
public, and that sucks.

1. please use math-compatible fonts in LaTeX, like Computer Modern,
Latin Modern, Lucida Bright or MathTime (I suggest one of the first
two).  This way, stuff in the math environment won’t look differently
than the text.  Currently, your text is in a fancy font and maths are
in Computer Modern.
2. IMO, you should be doing a bit more general usage programming, not
science-specific.
3. Code highlighting for inline code and other languages, please.

This are just my basic thoughts from looking through it.

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#33582

On Nov 20, 2:58 am, Kwpolska <kwpol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are writing it for something called “NCLab”, not for the general
> public, and that sucks.

And making it available to the general public to consume. What's wrong
with writing for one audience and providing for a broader?

If you're that concerned with the "NCLab"-ness of it, fork it.

> 2. IMO, you should be doing a bit more general usage programming,
> not science-specific.

It's produced by the Network Computing Laboratory for Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, of course their focus will be
on science. It's not like there's a lack of more generalised
programming guides for Python.

Some nice bikeshedding there, btw.

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#33591

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:58:55 +0100, Kwpolska wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Pavel Solin <solin.pavel@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I would like to introduce a new Python textbook aimed at high school
>> students:
>>
>> http://femhub.com/textbook-python/.
>>
>> The textbook is open source and its public Git repository is located at
>> Github:
>>
>> git@github.com:femhub/nclab-textbook-python.git
> 
> URL for humans: https://github.com/femhub/nclab-textbook-python
> 
> 
>> Feedback and contributions are very much welcome, every contributor
>> becomes automatically a co-author.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Pavel
>>
>>
> You are writing it for something called “NCLab”, not for the general
> public, and that sucks.

I don't see why you say that it sucks. Why do you care if a free, useful 
Python text book drives some eyeballs to a website?




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Steven

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