User talk:Fnielsen

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Would like to collaborate
Hi, I am an active writer for physics courses that I currently teach at Wright State University at Lake Campus (Ohio). Our very small campus uses MATLAB which is very expensive and not on most of our campus computers. I was thinking of installing the MATLAB clone (Octave) and placed my initial efforts on MATLAB a few days. Then I found your work on Python and think perhaps I could use your resource. --guyvan52 (discuss • contribs) 14:04, 14 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, but what do you mean? Python is not Matlab, so how would you use my work on Python for Matlab? Do you mean the quizzes? I see that you already have used the quizzes in MATLAB/Hello world, MATLAB/Octave so that is fine. Note that the wiki quiz syntax is not mine, but an extension developed by others. You can see information about it here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Quiz and under Help:Quiz. There is quite a range of options. &mdash; Fnielsen (discuss • contribs) 15:11, 14 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi, I had to edit your talk page so that I could move Hello world to Octave. I found your comment by accident as I was moving the page (I like to move all the links to keep Wikiveristy's namespace clear).  To answer you question, I didn't mean to suggest that Matlab and Python are similar languages.  But Python is much more popular than Octave, and probably equally suited to the types of calculations needed to create wikiquizzes.  If I ever teach Python, we will learn how two write wikiquizzes.--guyvan52 (discuss • contribs) 18:56, 8 November 2014 (UTC)