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Creating good course material takes time! Escpecially non-programming and programming problems that align closely with learning outcome.

History: Erik adopted the operating systems course (one big messy zip archive) in 2009.

We have a course with five "things":

  • Slides and notes created with LaTeX Beamer
    • code examples, demos
    • videos
    • web pages, etc
  • Review questions in one LaTeX document
  • Non-programming problems in one LaTeX document
  • Programming problems in one LaTeX document
  • Lab exercises in one LaTeX document

The "protocol"

  1. Topics are organized as folders with foldernames XX-keyword/ where XX is a sequence number 01, 02, ...
    (keyword is mapped to full names in buildbook.conf)
  2. The LaTeX Beamer file is in XX-keyword/tex/keyword.tex, notes are placed in \begin{graybox}...\end{graybox}

  3. Review questions in 00-REVIEW/review-qa.tex

  4. Non-programmering problems in 00-PROBLEMS/problems-qa.tex

  5. Programming problems in 00-PROG/prog-qa.tex

  6. Lab exercises in 00-LAB/lab-qa.tex
    Entries in in these files follow same format, e.g.

    %%%%%io19:ErikH:-1:5:REP,X14HiG,X15HiOAHiG,KX17NTNU
    \item Beskriv kort RAID nivå 0, 1 og 5.

    \textbf{0 er striping, 1 er speiling, 5 er striping med spredt paritet i
    tillegg som gir en disk redundans.}
    %%%%%

    where the header line indicates id, author, level, weight, REP=part of hand-out, the rest are exam codes

The "tool" buildbook.py (a horrible Perl-script by ErikH, rewritten into nice Python by EigilO)

foreach keyword in topiclist
__create chapter
__parse XX-keyword/tex/keyword.tex (create graybox if instructor-switch on)
__create section "Theory questions"
____parse 00-REVIEW/review-qa.tex (include all entries labelled "REP")
____parse 00-PROBLEMS/problems-qa.tex (include all entries labelled "REP")
____parse 00-PROG/prog-qa.tex (include all entries labelled "REP")
__create section "Lab exercises"
____parse 00-LAB/lab-qa.tex (include all entries labelled "REP")
Add appendices if part of command line options

(in each topicfolder there is also a build-script to create presentation and notes from the Beamer file)

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