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Name:
[008] Kyran Dale
Member:
52 months
Authored:
16 videos
Description:
I'm one of the co-founders of Showmedo and an academic researcher by profession. My peripatetic path has taken me from a Philosophy degree via Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Robotics to a PhD in Neuroscience. I spent five years in a small room with a colony of reluctant bumble-bees, becomi ...
The Anatomy of a Learning-path
start
You would like to know what learning-paths look like.
goals
To understand the structure of learning-paths and the result of processing a text-script into HTML/CSS/Javascripted elements.
A Big Picture
In the section below is a large image highlighting the elements used to construct a learning-path. A text script, written is written in ReST...
You don't know how to create a Showmedo Learning path.
You should know enough restructured text (reST) to be able to write a learning-path script.
... and previewed or committed using a form button. The resulting learning-path is previewed below the form, using HTML retrieved by an AJAX call to the Showmedo website.
The RST-script for this Learning-path
The script below was used to generate the learning-path page above.
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The Anatomy of a Learning-path
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.. contents::
start
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You would like to know what learning-paths look like.
goals
=====
To understand the structure of learning-paths and the result of processing a text-script into HTML/CSS/Javascripted elements.
A Big Picture
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In the section below is a large image highlighting the elements used to construct a learning-path. A text script, written is written in ReST...
.. path:: 2
... and previewed or committed using a form button. The resulting learning-path is previewed below the form, using HTML retrieved by an AJAX call to the Showmedo website.
From script to learning-path
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.. figure:: /static/images/LPs/LP_anatomy.png
:figclass: float-center

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Usefull, too bad I can´t publish the LPs yet.