Re: [tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-05-09 Thread Daniel Cunningham
You're doing some great work over there, Steven! I've an action item or three on my list to review some of the impressive adaptations you & your students have done. Impressive, to say the least! Best regards, -- Daniel On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Steven Schneider wrote:

Re: [tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-05-08 Thread Steven Schneider
Richard, this is a really excellent project. Thanks. Along with others in this thread, I share the goal of producing textbooks and other educational resources in TiddlyWiki. I think of them as "writeable texts" in that students will be able to write on / in / against the text. To me, this is a

Re: [tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-04-25 Thread Daniel Cunningham
Thanks, Richard -- this link works (the array of earlier ones didn't). At first glance... WOW! Something else. Kudos to you. I'll be teaching my two boys calculus this summer, and I may just chose this one. I believe that the non-linearity may really lend itseld to letting student learn the

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-04-25 Thread RichardWilliamSmith
I uploaded a copy of this to neocities, which you can find here https://richardsmith.neocities.org/site/Active_Calculus_v0.1.html Be aware that the file is 17.5mb and will probably take a while to download. Regards, Richard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-04-25 Thread RichardWilliamSmith
Are you sure it isn't working? It's a very big file and takes quite a long time to load. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: [tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-04-25 Thread PJO
I would also like to have a copy (missed the original posts here) Can someone with a copy share it? Shouldn't this be shared with bittorrent by supporters?! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: [tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-04-24 Thread Daniel Cunningham
I echo BJ's finding that the link is not working for me either. :-( I'm genuinely interested, but I think the frustration of several cycles of "thar she blows!" followed by "myuh, myuh, myuh..." is wearing thin. On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:40 AM, RichardWilliamSmith <

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-04-24 Thread BJ
the links not working for me. On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 10:49:52 AM UTC+2, DavidRowe Wtl wrote: > > Is this what you are after? > > http://mozilla-support.vtek.com/Active_Calculus_v0.1.html > > > On Sunday, 23 April 2017 11:51:34 UTC+1, Ste Wilson wrote: >> >> and the link to its hiding

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-04-24 Thread RichardWilliamSmith
Well, that was unexpected. I was going to dig out a copy but now I don't have to :) If you have any questions about it, I'd be happy to answer them if I can. I'm still interested in this as an idea. It was always supposed to be a proof of concept, showing that a full book would work in TW.

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-04-24 Thread DavidRowe Wtl
Is this what you are after? http://mozilla-support.vtek.com/Active_Calculus_v0.1.html On Sunday, 23 April 2017 11:51:34 UTC+1, Ste Wilson wrote: > > and the link to its hiding place is...? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To

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2017-04-23 Thread Ste Wilson
and the link to its hiding place is...? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-04-23 Thread blackHole
Both these links https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83055414/Active_Calculus_v0.1.html

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-04-22 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
Using google, I could find one site where someone had tucked away a copy. Good luck, Mark On Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 12:02:22 PM UTC-7, Ste Wilson wrote: > > I'm assuming it also used to be here activecalculus.didaxy.net but that > seems to be gone too. I always meant to download a copy...

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-04-22 Thread Ste Wilson
I'm assuming it also used to be here activecalculus.didaxy.net but that seems to be gone too. I always meant to download a copy... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-04-21 Thread Daniel Cunningham
Hi Richard, The moved dropbox link does not seem to be working. Can you re-post? On Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 2:40:40 PM UTC-7, Richard Smith wrote: > > Hi Jon, > > Sorry. I moved it into a sub-directory along with some others, the direct > link is now >

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-04-14 Thread Douglas Counts
Hi Richard, That newer link doesn't appear to be active now either. Too bad, I would love to take a look at your work. -Doug On Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 4:40:40 PM UTC-5, Richard Smith wrote: > > Hi Jon, > > Sorry. I moved it into a sub-directory along with some others, the direct > link is

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-03-15 Thread Jon
Hi Richard, Is your maths text still available? The above link isn't working. Regards Jon On Monday, 19 January 2015 01:36:53 UTC, Richard Smith wrote: Hello All, I have just finished a first draft conversion of a Calculus Textbook to TW5. I thought you might like to take a look at it and

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-03-15 Thread Jon
Thanks, Richard. Regards Jon On Sunday, 15 March 2015 21:40:40 UTC, Richard Smith wrote: Hi Jon, Sorry. I moved it into a sub-directory along with some others, the direct link is now https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83055414/Books/Active_Calculus_v0.1.html . Regards, Richard --

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-03-15 Thread Richard Smith
Hi Jon, Sorry. I moved it into a sub-directory along with some others, the direct link is now https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83055414/Books/Active_Calculus_v0.1.html. Regards, Richard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-03-15 Thread iain
I would be really interested in finding out a bit more about how you set up your TW and formatted your tiddlers - I have a few books of my own to consider. Iain -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-19 Thread Peter Miller
Agree with Birthe. Downloaded like a rocket and runs beautifully. No spam popup/tab issues. On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 1:36:53 AM UTC, Richard Smith wrote: Hello All, I have just finished a first draft conversion of a Calculus Textbook to TW5. I thought you might like to take a look at

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-19 Thread ramu . rj
This is AMAZING!!! You have gone to a lot of work and thank you for all that, I've been thinking of using tiddlywiki for open source books (little known works of art in my native language) and this gives me ideas and makes it easier! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-19 Thread RichShumaker
Awesome stuff. Rich Shumaker -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-19 Thread Mat
Hi again, Yeah, such a sucky thing to bring up. I have kept the tab to take a closer look. It's from https: // www . igame . com / [etc]. The etc shows it's language specified. But my guess is it's part of some affiliate network as usual. What is weird is that I had not recently opened any

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-19 Thread PMario
On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 12:20:40 PM UTC+1, RichardWilliamSmith wrote: I decided to make the experiment of each piece being the smallest meaningful unit. OK. I see. ... but imo I've seen some tiddlers, that only contained half a sentence or a headline. ... So imo half a sentence

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-19 Thread Jed Carty
Richard, I agree about copyright, especially when it comes to things like this. PMario, I hadn't considered tablets and phones, a solution that works on desktops and mobile devices is probably important. And JSXGraph is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to find. Thanks! -- You

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-19 Thread PMario
On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 12:13:38 PM UTC+1, Jed Carty wrote: I have been hoping to find a good d3.js based library that could be used to add interactive plotting to tiddlywiki, and I am working on a very basic math that plug-in that will hopefully use math.js to allow simple

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-19 Thread RichardWilliamSmith
Hi Mat, My big idea is to use TW as a platform for remixing the content. There's lots of great stuff already out there - basically the whole of high school maths is available for free - but schools need something that matches their specified curriculum exactly. I want to create an ecosystem

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-19 Thread Jed Carty
This looks awesome. I think that using pop-ups so that when you click on a term it displays the definition would improve the usability as a learning tool. Something like this

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-19 Thread RichardWilliamSmith
Hi @PMario Because I'm not right in the head ;) I decided to make the experiment of each piece being the smallest meaningful unit. In practice the 10,000 are the individual paragraphs, figures and equations of the original manuscript (so really you see it was Professor Boelkins who split the

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-19 Thread RichardWilliamSmith
Hi Jed, That would be amazing. Any help/contributions at all would be gladly appreciated. My intention, naturally, is for the work to remain free of 'copyright' and other such Victoriana. Regards, Richard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-19 Thread PMario
On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 12:13:38 PM UTC+1, Jed Carty wrote: This looks awesome. I think that using pop-ups so that when you click on a term it displays the definition would improve the usability as a learning tool. Something like this

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-19 Thread PMario
Looks nice. I just have one question. Why did you split the content up into 10'000 tiddlers? It's almost every line is a tiddler. Is there a reason? IMO it just makes the experience / UI slow. -m -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group.

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2015-01-19 Thread Richard Smith
Hi @PMario OK. I see. ... but imo I've seen some tiddlers, that only contained half a sentence or a headline. ... So imo half a sentence without context looses its meaning. ... So may be in the second step .. some mergers would be helpful. .. but that's just my opinion. At the

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-18 Thread Mat
W ...O ..W . ! I've only taken a quick glance - but what a job you've done!!! Will look closer later! ...again WOW! One side-question that pops up (literally) is the automatic opening of a parallel tab in my browser after a while, showing spam. Could this somehow be from

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-18 Thread Richard Smith
Hi Mat, One side-question that pops up (literally) is the automatic opening of a parallel tab in my browser after a while, showing spam. Could this somehow be from your wiki or dropbox??? I have no idea, I'm afraid. I don't seem to be able to replicate it. Is it dropbox-related spam?

[tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2015-01-18 Thread Birthe C
Hi Richard and Mat, I also har a look on your book, and I had no spam showing experience. I am amazed that your texbook is running so fast, with all that content. Your work is an example to follow. I will for sure look even more, when I get better time. Birthe -- You received this message