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Text book project
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The Textbook Project aims to port worked out examples and select
exercise problems from standard textbooks using an open source
software system, such as Sage. In the following writeup, the word Sage
can be replaced by any other open source software as well. Any
"standard" textbook can be used for this purpose. It will be referred
to simply as textbook.

The following three types of people are required in this project:

   #. A teacher who has taught a subject for a minimum of one or two
       years with a textbook
          * proposes the project
   	  * leads the project
	  * identifies the people who can do the coding, called
            programmers
	  * verifies the code written by the programmers
   #. A person/student who is converting the examples into Sage
       (Programmer)
          * possibly some bright students of the teacher
          * can also be people especially hired for the project
          * typically someone who has-undergone/is-undergoing a course
            using the textbook and has-done/will-do well
   #. Reviewer
          * A person who is familiar with the subject for five to ten
            years
          * Considered to be an expert on the topic
          * Could be a teacher, industry personnel or self employed
          * The reviewer can be proposed by the teacher

The open source software projects at IIT Bombay, funded by the
National Mission on Education through ICT can provide financial
assistance for the implementation of the project. The objectives and
guidelines are give below:

   #. What is the objective of this exercise?
          * To make it easy for the users of the textbook to start
            using Sage
          * To improve the documentation available for Sage
   #. Guidelines
          * All the worked out examples from the textbook, that are
            amenable to Sage, should be solved
          * A few unsolved problems as well
          * Same symbols used in the textbook should be used in the
            code as well
          * As a result, the symbols need not be explained in the code
          * Problem description should not be repeated in the code -
            one has to go through the textbook to find out what the
            problem is
   #. Copyright Issues:
          * The Sage code created through this effort will be released
            as open source.
          * As one needs the textbook to understand the code, the
            rights of the textbook are not violated.
          * As the textbook examples and problems are solved by Sage,
            an open source software system, the value of the textbook
            goes up by this effort.

For more information, please write to *textbook@fossee.in*