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EGM 6341 Numerical Methods for Engineering Analysis 1, Spring 2011 Prof. Loc Vu-Quoc

University of Florida

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Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California, By Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 18, 2008. Would-be reformers are trying to beat the high cost -- and, they say, the dumbing down -- of college materials by writing or promoting open-source, no-cost online texts.

IMPORTANT: The perils of plagiarizing wikipedia; see Falling exam passes blamed on Wikipedia 'littered with inaccuracies', 21 June 2008, by Martyn Mclaughlin, News.Scotsman.com. "WIKIPEDIA and other online research sources were yesterday blamed for Scotland's falling exam pass rates."

Model report: Current version Archived version

MIT's OpenCourseWare course(s): Current version

Lecture plan, including lecture transparencies and references. Spring 2010 version

Report table, Spring 2010 version

Writing tools: Mourning the Death of Handwriting, Op-Art: The Write Stuff
 * Writing tools, pros and cons


 * Almost-WYSIWYG wiki writing, Mediawiki environment templates, Create new account, Upload files, Link archived reports to Report table, APA Citation Style


 * Mediawiki syntax: Wikitext examples, Math formulas, Images upload/display, Citing references
 * Mediawiki tools: Mediawiki tools, Editing tools, Mediawiki external editors


 * Latex for Windows (open source), WinEdt (shareware). NOTE: Latex is included in linux and Mac OS.
 * Online collaborative Word-like processors: Google docs, Zoho writer (with latex equations)


 * Scalable vector graphic software (Windows, linux, open source): Inkscape, TexText (latex extension for Inkscape)

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