On Thursday 03 June 2010 23:04:01 Pradeep Gowda wrote:
> > I have been commissioned to create and implement a course (compulsory
> > with 2 credits for first semester) on computer programming for business
> > managers for MBA's in a new B school that is starting up. I envisage
> > something like the nltk tutorial. Ideas and suggestions please. I will,
> > of course, develop the course in a mercurial repo, but that is the
> > future. The idea is that this should become a standard cp-101 for
> > business schools.
> 
> Very interesting development kenneth.
> Is this the NLTK tutorial you are talking about:
> http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/book/ch01.html

thats the one - when I was learning nltk, it also helped me brush up my python 
skills
> 
> Putting up the course in a hg repo is a good idea.
> Consider using something like Sphinx (reStructuredText + publishing
> friendly tweaks) for writing the text.
> 
> Using Sphinx will make it very easy to publish the online version as
> PDF for offline reading/textbook publishing with no additional effort.
> Eg: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/ and "published" book from the same
> source: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/flask-docs.pdf
> 

thanks for the suggestion - obviously a python course should be structured 
using python tools - think I will set this up and invite you guys to make the 
book with me.

-- 
Regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Senior Associate
NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC
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