Apps Freezing for MathUI

Published on July 4, 2014.

Today I update and freeze the apps for MathUI Demo Session. At this post you will find some screenshots of the apps.

Import Lesson - Is it Possible?

Published on July 2, 2014.

Some time ago, Greg Wilson wrote about the idea of import lessons. This is food for thought about it.

Version Control and Possibility to Fork Lessons

For individual lesson we should use a modern distribute version control system like Git or Mercurial.

The problem is what use to deal with the collection of lessons when import each one. We can think in use Git Submodule or Git Subtree but from my experience the better approach is use a tool on top of Git or Mercurial like git-repo. This approach will avoid the user learn the complexity of Git Submodule and let the user choose the version control system more suitable to he/she needs.

Collaborative Development of Educational Resources

Published on July 2, 2014.

In the last few years I tried push the collaborative development of educational resources with GitHub for undergraduates students and fail. My vote for the reason that I fail is, as suggest by Justin Kitzes, that

"potential contributors need a certain level of familiarity and comfort with the tools that enable contributions (such as version control or a browser-based Wiki editor)."

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GSoC: June 23 - June 30

Published on June 30, 2014.

This is one of the reports about my GSoC project and cover the sixth week of "Students coding".

At this sith week I continue working at the Input Method Editors (IME). Bellow you will find more details about the past week and the plans for this one.

Alternative Keys

I add more symbols as alternative keys <../25/math_key_spec2> and now I cover almost all the symbols from my proposal. Most of the symbols that still need to be included are from logic and set theory, e.g:

Smoke Test for Virtual Keyboard

Published on June 26, 2014.

I and my mentor agree to do an smoke test for the project and when the keyboard pass it we submit will submit the keyboard to Marketplace. Below is the smoke test.