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 _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
