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Python/LaTeX book mailing list
by Pramode C.E. 14 Dec '09

14 Dec '09

Hello, The Python/LaTeX book: http://radiantbytes.com/books/python-latex/ now has a mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/pymath Please join the discussion! The book urgently needs a good set of exercises for each chapter; please contribute your ideas - together, we can make this a useful resource for our teachers and students! Note that all the source files required to build the book are available on GitHub: http://github.com/pramode/Python-and-LaTeX-Book Regards, Pramode ------------- The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/

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Training programme on effective teaching/learning of programming
by V. Sasi Kumar 13 Dec '09

13 Dec '09

Prof. Phatak's 1000 teacher training programme on the topic, "Effective teaching/learning of computer programming" is scheduled to start tomorrow at about 9:30 am. The details of this course are available at http://ekalavya.it.iitb.ac.in/EffectiveTeaching_Course.do This training will take place through the student interactive terminals located at 22 remote centres of EDUSAT, with two way audio, video interaction. As of now about 900 college teachers who teach computer programming in hundreds of colleges will go through this training over a period of ten working days during 14-24 Dec. 2009. Prof. Phatak plans to use the open source learning management system Moodle for this course. All teachers will be able to participate in discussions, etc. through this forum. All of these, including the video recording of the course lectures, will be released as open source. A webcast of the entire course will be available free of cost at http://www.cdeep.iitb.ac.in/webcast/ Thanks to Prof. Kannan Moudgalya and Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam for the information. Best -- V. Sasi Kumar http://swatantryam.blogspot.com

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School students in action...
by ck raju 13 Dec '09

13 Dec '09

"Kozhikode: An information technology project prepared by the students of KPES High School, Kayakkodi, near Kutyadi in Kozhikode, aims at popularising the use of the free software, Linux, in the panchayat with the help of trained student volunteers of the IT Club at the school. The school authorities said the project was already in the implementation stage at the Kayakkodi panchayat. IT coordinator of the school K.T. Kunhammad said 70 students had been trained by experts to install the GNU/Linux operating system in the households in the panchayath. Initially, a survey was conducted in the panchayat with the assistance of IT experts from different institutes, including the National Institute of Technology (NIT-C), to study the current nature of system usage. It was found that at least one member in 90 per cent of the families in the panchayat was computer literate. According to Mr. Kunhammad, the study found that 15 per cent of the households owned PCs with 67 per cent of them using Microsoft’s Windows as the operating system. As many as 27 per cent of the households have Windows and Linux on their computers. “Only 7 per cent had only Linux on their computers,” he said. Mr. Kunhammad said the people were not aware of the “moral” and “legal” angles of using a “pirated” copy of Windows operating system on their computers. The project will create awareness among the students and the households. The school have already conducted study classes and seminars to sensitise people about the legal and moral dimensions of using a pirated version of the Windows. ...." Complete story at http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/13/stories/2009121352630300.htm -- CK Raju

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scipy.in
by Vimal Joseph 13 Dec '09

13 Dec '09

watch scipy.in online at http://giss.tv:8000/scipy.ogg -- Free Software, Free Society സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയര്‍, സ്വതന്ത്ര സമൂഹം <http://fsfs.in>

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Python textbook for BSc Informatics paper
by Pramode C.E. 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hello, I am writing a small Python and LaTeX book to be used as a text for the BSc Informatics paper of Calicut University (for math students): http://radiantbytes.com/books/python-latex/ A mailing list will be up and running soon .... please let me know your suggestions. Regards, Pramode ------------ The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/

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Government of Karnataka releases Kanaja.in - a wikipedia type Kannada website and a Copyright
by jaykumar hs 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Karnataka Knowledge Commission released a wikipedia type Kannada website. http://www.kanaja.in/ We already have good kannada wikipedia, but I don't know whether Karnataka Knowledge Commission had any clue about this before venturing into another one. GOK is spending about Rs. 2.0 crore for this, says Deccan herald report. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/39746/kanaja-launched.html Curiously, this site has copyrights!! Regards Jaykumar

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