[LON-CAPA-users] which texts play well with loncapa

[H. K. Ng]

Brew,

The person to contact for access to Giancoli problems is Christian 
Botting. His email address is  Christian_Botting@Prenhall.com. The 
sales rep usually does not know about loncapa.

We have use the Giancoli (alg) problems for a number of years and 
they have worked well (any bugs that show up have been corrected.) 
However, the version on the FSU domain is for the 5th ed.

-hk


At 02:31 PM 1/23/2007, you wrote:
>I have been trying to get the Giancoli people (Pearson Prentice Hall) to
>get me access to their problems for several months now (since October). The
>sales rep replies they are working on it, but nothing has happened yet.
>
>James' post has me concerned -
>
>1) Is there anything in particular I can do to speed this process up?
>
>2) Is anyone using the Giancoli (algebra) questions, and are they OK? I
>hate to go through all this and find the problems are not very useful
>anyway.
>
>Thanks,
>brew
>
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>To: lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
>From: "James A. Mueller" <mueller+@pitt.edu>
>Sent by: lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org
>Date: 01/23/2007 12:35PM
>Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] which texts play well with loncapa
>
>Well the textbook reps have started to come by to inform us about new
>editions (continuing the upgrade cycle) of their calculus based
>textbook.  This raises a question: Which textbooks play well with
>loncapa?  We are currently using Young and Freedman, which has no
>loncapa problems (although they do have their own proprietary system).
>For the algebra-based sequence, we use Cutnell and Johnson, which does
>have some problems in /res/wiley/cutnell, but these problems are
>terrible!  They throw errors, sometimes the answers are not even
>correct, and in general are useless.  Since we are going to have to
>decide which will be the new "official" textbook, what information
>should we bring to the table as far as loncapa compatibility is
>concerned.
>
>
>
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