Re: [IAEP] More new and revised chapters of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! ready for review, feedback

[Gary C Martin]

Hi James,

On 24 Feb 2010, at 17:48, Gary C Martin wrote:

 Hi James,
 
 On 24 Feb 2010, at 16:52, James Simmons wrote:
 
 Gary,
 
 It's kind of interesting but I see a lot of words in there like
 should, good, putting etc.
 
 Well it is based on your word usage ;-b
 
 Actually, perhaps 600 terms was a little too deep for this size of text. Just 
 looked at the frequency filter output and it indicates every term on the map 
 was only used 4 or more times in your text (ignoring kill-lists for 
 prepositions, determiners conjunctions, pronouns etc). I usually have that at 
 a much a higher frequency threshold – I guess the give away here is all that 
 blue ocean (low frequency, weakly associated terms).

I regenerated the map only placing the top 300 terms, does it look any better 
to your eye?


http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Activities_guide_sugar_som_23rd_feb.jpg

Regards,
--Gary

 Plus the complete text includes a lot of
 code samples, so that's going to make an SOM less meaningful too.
 
 I do strip out source code, it's highly repetitive nature would swamp your 
 text narrative with self being the dominant term.
 
 It's hard for me to get much of an idea of what the book is about from
 the diagram.
 
 OK, thanks for the feedback!
 
 The most interesting thing like this that I've seen is the tag cloud
 for the Children's Library at the Internet Archive:
 
 http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=/metadata/subjectcollection=iaclview=cloud
 
 Yea, though I'd personally much rather they went the extra mile and placed 
 related subject terms spatially near each other rather than just an 
 alphabetical list, that way you could find subjects and associated/related 
 subjects at a glance and work your way over a topic area of interest (I'd 
 need some local access to their archive to generate that map, though it could 
 be generated from a subset I guess).
 
 Regards,
 --Gary
 
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[IAEP] More new and revised chapters of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! ready for review, feedback

[Jim Simmons]

In this latest draft I have added a not quite complete chapter on
Making Shared Activities.  The part that is missing is on using DBus
Tubes to remotely call methods, and it's missing because I've never
done it.  I do plan to learn how to do this, come up with a decent
example program (something fancier than Hello Mesh), and write it up
in the book, but it will take awhile.  The new draft is at:

http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.02.03-18.11.39.pdf

I found out yesterday that copying code from PDF's, either the OBJAVI!
version here or the one the Floss Manuals website produces, does NOT
work.  In one case you get garbage and in the second you get code with
no indents.  I have set up a Git repository for the sample code in the
book and I will change all the references to copying and pasting code
to Open file name in the Git project you downloaded.

I actually had to learn things about Activity Sharing to write the new
chapter, so I am VERY concerned that what I think I learned is
correct.  I don't want to lead anyone astray!

I have reached the point in the book where the stuff I already know is
pretty much done.  From now on I'll be learning as I go.  If you've
been giving this project the benefit of the doubt now is a good time
to stop doing that.

Thanks,

James Simmons
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