Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-20 Thread Marvin M. Doyley
Thanks John, I am sure this will be better than blackboard. I will give it a try :) Cheers M Sent from my iPhone ** May contain typos** > On Dec 20, 2014, at 5:48 PM, John Kitchin wrote: > > All of the code is here: > https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/tree/master/techela > > and there is some

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-20 Thread briangpowell .
* Wow! Thanks for posting this topic and your techela. * Suggest an "Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp" and OrgMode be everyone's first, and maybe last, required course in grade school--other than Reading, Writing and Arithmetic of course! * Suggest all students download this free book a

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-20 Thread Evan Misshula
I am going to try this semester also. Thanks for paving the way. :-) On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:48 PM, John Kitchin wrote: > All of the code is here: > https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/tree/master/techela > > and there is some documentation in the README. > > I am not sure how much work it woul

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-20 Thread John Kitchin
All of the code is here: https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/tree/master/techela and there is some documentation in the README. I am not sure how much work it would take to try it yourself though. You need to setup a gitolite server (that is described in the README), and more importantly figure out

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-20 Thread Marvin M. Doyley
Very cool indeed. I would love to try this for a small course that I will be teaching in the spring semester. Is your code available? Cheers, M Sent from my iPad

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-19 Thread John Kitchin
I put a screencast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRUCiF2MwP4&feature=youtu.be&a if you would like to see some of what this was like. John Kitchin writes: > Hi all, > > I wrote a blog post > (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/12/18/org-mode-+-Python-+-git-in-a-graduate-engineering

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-19 Thread John Kitchin
keting > (201) 489-8600 ext 224 or ext 4335 > > "This is a slow pup," he said continuing his ascent. > > > > -Original Message- > > On > > Behalf Of John Kitchin > > Subject: [O] org-mode in teaching > > > > Hi all, > > >

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-19 Thread Doug Lewan
; On > Behalf Of John Kitchin > Subject: [O] org-mode in teaching > > Hi all, > > I wrote a blog post > (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/12/18/org-mode-+-Python-+- > git-in-a-graduate-engineering-course/) > on how I used org-mode in teaching this past fall.

[O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-18 Thread John Kitchin
Hi all, I wrote a blog post (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/12/18/org-mode-+-Python-+-git-in-a-graduate-engineering-course/) on how I used org-mode in teaching this past fall. Short summary: All the notes, assignments, quizzes, exams, etc... were in org-mode, students did all their wo