================= Text book project =================

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*