Mark Galassi's documentation builds
Links to home pages
Click here
to access info and various materials for some workshops that I
organize.
Serious computer programming for youth
Programming workshops for kids described
at https://sites.google.com/view/serious-programming/
Web books that I write to accompany the courses I teach
Some of these web books are complete, but most of them are
always "in progress", but they have different stages of
completion. Some are quite extensive, others are just outlines
at this time.
- Serious
Computer Programming for Youth - Teacher Manual
(pdf)
-
This book is complete, but it is getting old (from early
2015). Today (mid 2021) I follow it in terms of how to
explain material, but I have change the order in which I do
things. So the book is good, but I now recommend a different
order for chapters. I will revise it at some point.
- Serious programming small
courses (html)
- This is the html format for the "small courses" book written
by myself and some of the best students to take these
workshops. I teach from this very actively: every 2 weeks
since 2017. It has dozens of chapters, most ready for
teaching.
- Serious
programming small courses PDF
- (pdf format for page-oriented typsetting - this format is
not updated too often, please use the HTMl format above)
- Serious
programming small courses epub
- (epub format for portable devices such as tablets and mobile
phones; note that at this time equations might be poorly
formatted in epub - this format is not updated often, please
use the HTML format above)
- Math and science working
groups
-
Right now I have two of these - the first is on
"visualizing algebra", and the second on "math for research"
(Fourier Analysis, Taylor Series, numerical solutions to
differential equations...) There is
a "motivation
and plan" section.
I teach these every year and announce them to various lists;
the book has a section
with current
logistical details.
- A tutorial on restructured text and markdown
tools
- html
and pdf.
- Release Engineering
-
A tutorial paper on release engineering, based on autotools
and distribution-native packaging.
- The case
for free and open source software in research and scholarship
-
Laura Fortunato (University of Oxford) and I give a
history-steeped tutorial on free/open-source software, and an
in-depth case study of the GNU Scientific Library. This is
published by the Royal Society (there is a link to it), but
you would need a subscription to their journal to see it.
- Sysadmin hacks
-
My personal bag of tricks for sysadmin work.
- Hacker's
compendium (html)
-
A collection of software development explorations that bring
together various aspects of programming and the operating
system.
- Research Skills
and Critical Thinking
-
The book Karina Higginson, Albert Kerelis, and I wrote to
accompany the Research Skills Academy.
- Research Skills
and Critical Thinking (pdf version; updated less frequently
than the html)
-
The same book in PDF format.
- Modern
software engineering and research handout slides
- This version of the talk is from teaching the workshop at Reed
College in January 2021.
mark@galassi.org