No need to apologize. I know this is a busy time. The ultimate goal is to replace the hyperdoc/graphics with a browser front end using HTML canvas for the graphics. I have made a start on this but have been busy with other things. (See http://axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/bookvol11.pdf)
A possible alternative is to use the Jupyter notebook. (http://jupyter.org/) I have not looked into this in detail. The student is free to talk to me about any ideas. I'm working on a syllabus for a CMU course which seems to differ from the current courses taught elsewhere. Almost every course spends all of its time on the algorithms. That's fine but it leave the topic "ungrounded". The student does not know how the algorithms are actually implemented and does not know how to build/test/modify an existing system with new work. It's a bit like teaching art by looking at paintings but never mentioning 90% of the subject that a real artist knows, like brushes, medium, art shows, etc. It's all nice in theory but is ultimately pointless as the student can't use the information. In the ideal case the students would be part of a group that does real work on a real system, just as art students end up painting and entering their work in art shows. I'm hoping to start a "reading group" that covers papers from the past as well as the latest conferences. I have a set of papers on CAD starting with the Collins 1975 paper onward which I'm starting to organize. Tim
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