From dencker at math.uni-luebeck.de Wed Jun 4 08:20:39 2014 From: dencker at math.uni-luebeck.de (Peter Dencker) Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 14:20:39 +0200 Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] maxima variable % Message-ID: <538F0F17.7030603@math.uni-luebeck.de> Hi. The evaluation of 1+2;storeA:%;1-2;storeB:%;[storeA,storeB]; with maxima (running in a shell on the LON-CAPA server) gives, as expected, [3,-1] But using cas( 'maxima', "1+2;storeA:%;1-2;storeB:%;[storeA,storeB];" ); in LON-CAPA does not work properly. (I would like to use such structures in a library project.) In principle the maxima variable % works. my @CHECK_IN = qw( 1+2; 1+2;%; 1+2;%;%; 1+2;store:%;%; 1+2;store:%;store; ); my @CHECK_OUT = map { cas( 'maxima', $_ ) } @CHECK_IN; Alle five entries of @CHECK_OUT should be 3. The first three examples work properly in LON-CAPA, but the other two don't; both evaluations seem to yield random integer numbers. I have a workaround, but using % would be the much better solution. Any idea? - Peter $out_str return 'SUBMITTED'; -- Dr. Peter Dencker wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter UNIVERSIT?T ZU L?BECK INSTITUT F?R MATHEMATIK Ratzeburger Allee 160 23562 L?beck Tel +49 451 500 4254 Fax +49 451 500 3373 dencker at math.uni-luebeck.de www.math.uni-luebeck.de From afindlay at mta.ca Fri Jun 20 12:15:07 2014 From: afindlay at mta.ca (Angus Findlay) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:15:07 +0000 Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Numbering assignment questions In-Reply-To: <5214D4B3.4050808@web.de> Message-ID: I would like LON-CAPA to automatically number my questions in each problem set I give students so that students can refer to this number when they discuss questions with either me or other students. (LON-CAPA should display this number with each of the displayed problems. Is this easy to ?turn-on? or does it have to be coded? Thanks. 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Mark On Jun 20, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Angus Findlay wrote: > I would like LON-CAPA to automatically number my questions in each problem set I give students so that students can refer to this number when they discuss questions with either me or other students. (LON-CAPA should display this number with each of the displayed problems. > > Is this easy to ?turn-on? or does it have to be coded? > > Thanks. > > Angus. > ---------------------------------------------- > Angus Findlay > Math Department, Mount Allison University > Sackville, New Brunswick > > email: afindlay at mta.ca tel: 506-364-2592 > ---------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > LON-CAPA-users mailing list > LON-CAPA-users at mail.lon-capa.org > http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users -- Mark Lucas email: lucasm at ohiou.edu 252D Clippinger Lab phone: (740)597-2984 Department of Physics and Astronomy fax: (740)593-0433 Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 From dmills at illinois.edu Fri Jun 20 12:51:13 2014 From: dmills at illinois.edu (Mills, Douglas G) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:51:13 +0000 Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] System Variable List - Is this available? In-Reply-To: References: <5214D4B3.4050808@web.de>, Message-ID: This is a great resource-- not sure if it's what you had in mind: https://s10.lite.msu.edu/res/msu/albertel/test/ext_examples.problem#0 Doug -sent from mobile- On Jun 20, 2014, at 11:20 AM, "Angus Findlay" > wrote: I looked through the Author?s Tutorial and Manual, but could not find a list of the system variables that can be used while coding problems. Does anyone know where a comprehensive list is, along with what the variable stores? Thanks in advance. Angus. ---------------------------------------------- Mr. Angus Findlay Math Department, Mount Allison University Sackville, New Brunswick email: afindlay at mta.ca tel: 506-364-2592 ---------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LON-CAPA-users mailing list LON-CAPA-users at mail.lon-capa.org http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From afindlay at mta.ca Fri Jun 20 13:46:25 2014 From: afindlay at mta.ca (Angus Findlay) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:46:25 +0000 Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Numbering assignment questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Mark, Thanks for the explanation. I will try to find another way to easily differentiate the problems. Angus. On 2014-06-20, 1:49 PM, "Lucas, Mark" wrote: > To my knowledge, there is no numbering system. Problem sets in LON-CAPA can be > edited dynamically > (problems inserted, rearranged or removed while the assignment is open) and > can be created conditionally, > so I understand that the choice was made not to number problems. > > Mark > > On Jun 20, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Angus Findlay wrote: > >> I would like LON-CAPA to automatically number my questions in each problem >> set I give students so that students can refer to this number when they >> discuss questions with either me or other students. (LON-CAPA should display >> this number with each of the displayed problems. >> >> Is this easy to ?turn-on? or does it have to be coded? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Angus. >> ---------------------------------------------- >> Angus Findlay >> Math Department, Mount Allison University >> Sackville, New Brunswick >> >> email: afindlay at mta.ca tel: 506-364-2592 >> ---------------------------------------------- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LON-CAPA-users mailing list >> LON-CAPA-users at mail.lon-capa.org >> http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users From afindlay at mta.ca Fri Jun 20 13:49:44 2014 From: afindlay at mta.ca (Angus Findlay) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:49:44 +0000 Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] System Variable List - Is this available? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: This certainly helps although I wouldn?t mind more detailed explanations, as I am fairly new to coding problems. Thanks. Angus. On 2014-06-20, 1:51 PM, "Mills, Douglas G" wrote: This is a great resource-- not sure if it's what you had in mind: https://s10.lite.msu.edu/res/msu/albertel/test/ext_examples.problem#0 Doug -sent from mobile- On Jun 20, 2014, at 11:20 AM, "Angus Findlay" wrote: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] System Variable List - Is this available? I looked through the Author?s Tutorial and Manual, but could not find a list of the system variables that can be used while coding problems. Does anyone know where a comprehensive list is, along with what the variable stores? Thanks in advance. 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URL: From lucasm at ohio.edu Fri Jun 20 14:11:36 2014 From: lucasm at ohio.edu (Lucas, Mark) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:11:36 -0400 Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Numbering assignment questions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: While it isn?t automatic, keep in mind that you can rename problems once they are placed in the assignment. Part of the renaming could be a number. Later, Mark On Jun 20, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Angus Findlay wrote: > Mark, > > Thanks for the explanation. I will try to find another way to easily > differentiate the problems. > > Angus. > > > On 2014-06-20, 1:49 PM, "Lucas, Mark" wrote: > >> To my knowledge, there is no numbering system. Problem sets in LON-CAPA can be >> edited dynamically >> (problems inserted, rearranged or removed while the assignment is open) and >> can be created conditionally, >> so I understand that the choice was made not to number problems. >> >> Mark >> >> On Jun 20, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Angus Findlay wrote: >> >>> I would like LON-CAPA to automatically number my questions in each problem >>> set I give students so that students can refer to this number when they >>> discuss questions with either me or other students. (LON-CAPA should display >>> this number with each of the displayed problems. >>> >>> Is this easy to ?turn-on? or does it have to be coded? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Angus. >>> ---------------------------------------------- >>> Angus Findlay >>> Math Department, Mount Allison University >>> Sackville, New Brunswick >>> >>> email: afindlay at mta.ca tel: 506-364-2592 >>> ---------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> LON-CAPA-users mailing list >>> LON-CAPA-users at mail.lon-capa.org >>> http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users > > _______________________________________________ > LON-CAPA-users mailing list > LON-CAPA-users at mail.lon-capa.org > http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users -- Mark Lucas email: lucasm at ohiou.edu 252D Clippinger Lab phone: (740)597-2984 Department of Physics and Astronomy fax: (740)593-0433 Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 From lucasm at ohio.edu Sat Jun 21 14:57:41 2014 From: lucasm at ohio.edu (Lucas, Mark) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 14:57:41 -0400 Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Hewitt Conceptual Physics - Problems? Message-ID: <613A15DD-0269-4075-8A3B-81DAF84D3C5F@ohio.edu> Hi, Does anyone have a good set of questions either from the book or that they use in conjunction with the book: Hewitt Conceptual Physics? I?ve got a high school teacher who uses the text for a lower level physics class, and it is often used for a 9th grade physical science text. We?ve also used it for a Physical Science course here that we no longer offer as often. If you have problems and would be willing to provide a pointer, that would be great. If you have a course that you use in conjunction with this text that you would be willing to clone for me to examine, that would also be great. Thanks, Mark -- Mark Lucas email: lucasm at ohiou.edu 252D Clippinger Lab phone: (740)597-2984 Department of Physics and Astronomy fax: (740)593-0433 Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 From dmills at illinois.edu Wed Jun 25 17:37:33 2014 From: dmills at illinois.edu (Mills, Douglas G) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:37:33 +0000 Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] System Variable List - Is this available? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Angus, What do you want to accomplish with the system variables? Doug Douglas Mills Director of Instructional Technologies Department of Chemistry University of Illinois dmills at illinois.edu (217) 244-5739 From: Angus Findlay > Reply-To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users > Date: Friday, June 20, 2014 at 12:49 PM To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users > Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] System Variable List - Is this available? This certainly helps although I wouldn?t mind more detailed explanations, as I am fairly new to coding problems. Thanks. Angus. On 2014-06-20, 1:51 PM, "Mills, Douglas G" wrote: This is a great resource-- not sure if it's what you had in mind: https://s10.lite.msu.edu/res/msu/albertel/test/ext_examples.problem#0 Doug -sent from mobile- On Jun 20, 2014, at 11:20 AM, "Angus Findlay" wrote: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] System Variable List - Is this available? I looked through the Author?s Tutorial and Manual, but could not find a list of the system variables that can be used while coding problems. Does anyone know where a comprehensive list is, along with what the variable stores? Thanks in advance. 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URL: From korte at lite.msu.edu Thu Jun 26 10:54:07 2014 From: korte at lite.msu.edu (Gerd Kortemeyer) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:54:07 -0400 Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] OpenStax College Physics now available Message-ID: <7AA5D0E5-E201-4313-8130-08F93AB39DF8@lite.msu.edu> Hi, In addition to commercial publisher textbook content (licensed in connection with the adoption of the respective textbook), http://www.courseweaver.com/lctextbooks.php we are excited to announce that OpenStax College Physics homework problems are now available for everybody in the LON-CAPA network, regardless of adoption of the book! Thanks to Prof. Hon-Kie Ng at Florida State, we now have a library of 1964 problems to go along with this free open textbook, https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics OpenStax is an exciting effort that fits well with our open-source project. Check it out! The materials can be used with on-site installations, as well as with any of the hosting options provided by CourseWeaver. The libraries have been made available at Florida State, /res/fsu/openstax-CollegePhysics CourseWeaver is providing a course template in the ?author? domain OpenStax Template Course author_2G319085124ac5347authorl1 which can be cloned system-wide. The problems of course work best in connection with the book (available from OpenStax), but they can be freely combined with all other open content in our library. Please join me in thanking Hon-Kie for his efforts in making this possible! - Gerd. From afindlay at mta.ca Thu Jun 26 11:03:00 2014 From: afindlay at mta.ca (Angus Findlay) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:03:00 +0000 Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] System Variable List - Is this available? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Doug, Maybe system variables is the wrong word for this. I fellow user is allowing me to use his syntax-checking code in my problems and I am trying to understand his code. He refers to variables such as $submission which are being assigned values, but not within his code. The first thing I would like to do if figure out how his code works, so that I can extend it for my own uses. A list of variables that are used for problem displaying and answer verification would be useful. Thanks for asking. Angus. On 2014-06-25, 6:37 PM, "Mills, Douglas G" wrote: Hi Angus, What do you want to accomplish with the system variables? Doug Douglas Mills Director of Instructional Technologies Department of Chemistry University of Illinois dmills at illinois.edu (217) 244-5739 From: Angus Findlay Reply-To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users Date: Friday, June 20, 2014 at 12:49 PM To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] System Variable List - Is this available? Re: [LON-CAPA-users] System Variable List - Is this available? This certainly helps although I wouldn?t mind more detailed explanations, as I am fairly new to coding problems. Thanks. Angus. On 2014-06-20, 1:51 PM, "Mills, Douglas G" wrote: This is a great resource-- not sure if it's what you had in mind: https://s10.lite.msu.edu/res/msu/albertel/test/ext_examples.problem#0 Doug -sent from mobile- On Jun 20, 2014, at 11:20 AM, "Angus Findlay" wrote: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] System Variable List - Is this available? I looked through the Author?s Tutorial and Manual, but could not find a list of the system variables that can be used while coding problems. Does anyone know where a comprehensive list is, along with what the variable stores? Thanks in advance. 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URL: From lucasm at ohio.edu Thu Jun 26 11:04:03 2014 From: lucasm at ohio.edu (Lucas, Mark) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:04:03 -0400 Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] OpenStax College Physics now available In-Reply-To: <7AA5D0E5-E201-4313-8130-08F93AB39DF8@lite.msu.edu> References: <7AA5D0E5-E201-4313-8130-08F93AB39DF8@lite.msu.edu> Message-ID: THANK YOU HON-KIE!!!!!!!!!! On Jun 26, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote: > Hi, > > In addition to commercial publisher textbook content (licensed in connection with the adoption of the respective textbook), > > http://www.courseweaver.com/lctextbooks.php > > we are excited to announce that OpenStax College Physics homework problems are now available for everybody in the LON-CAPA network, regardless of adoption of the book! > > Thanks to Prof. Hon-Kie Ng at Florida State, we now have a library of 1964 problems to go along with this free open textbook, > > https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics > > OpenStax is an exciting effort that fits well with our open-source project. Check it out! > > The materials can be used with on-site installations, as well as with any of the hosting options provided by CourseWeaver. The libraries have been made available at Florida State, > > /res/fsu/openstax-CollegePhysics > > CourseWeaver is providing a course template in the ?author? domain > > OpenStax Template Course > author_2G319085124ac5347authorl1 > > which can be cloned system-wide. > > The problems of course work best in connection with the book (available from OpenStax), but they can be freely combined with all other open content in our library. > > Please join me in thanking Hon-Kie for his efforts in making this possible! > > - Gerd. > > > _______________________________________________ > LON-CAPA-users mailing list > LON-CAPA-users at mail.lon-capa.org > http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users -- Mark Lucas email: lucasm at ohiou.edu 252D Clippinger Lab phone: (740)597-2984 Department of Physics and Astronomy fax: (740)593-0433 Ohio University Athens, OH 45701