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Dimathematician

A little bit of documentation

Hi all,

I decided to share some slides on QuantLib and Boost which I used for
teaching in one of my courses.
Basically, the slides are in a working stage as I could surely improve
formatting, some explanations and
code examples. Also, the documents include slides only. I'll not have
time to polish this to perfection but
I still think it is valuable resource as it includes a lot of
documentation, explanations and examples. The level
is introductionary and I do not spend a lot of time discussing the
architecture (use Luigi's pdf's for that). It's a
hands on intro. For all presentations, I also have the C++ code which I
have not attached. Anyways, this
should get some people started. Due to time constraints I'll not be able
to work on this further and incorporate
suggestions, improvements and correct typos.

So, what shall we do with this? Shall we put it somewhere? Delete it?
Hate it? Worship it?

Regards, Dimitri

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Dirk Eddelbuettel

Re: A little bit of documentation

On 16 December 2010 at 11:39, Dima wrote:
| So, what shall we do with this? Shall we put it somewhere? Delete it?
| Hate it? Worship it?

Whatever we do can we please decide to NOT email four megabyte files into
everybody's mailbox? There are webservers that can host this. You could start
with eg Google Pages if you have no other free hosting.

That said, thanks for writing and sharing docs. Sharing latex source (under
CC or GFDL or ...) would be cool too.

Dirk

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Dimathematician

Re: A little bit of documentation

You're absolutely right, apologies. I'll put everything online (including latex and C++
code) and will post a link. If there are people out there who know LaTex, have time,
energy and persistence and would like to put the slides in a book, let me know. I
have started to set something up and have a non-finished book version of the slides.
One can move from there easily.

2010/12/18 Dirk Eddelbuettel <[hidden email]>

On 16 December 2010 at 11:39, Dima wrote:
| So, what shall we do with this? Shall we put it somewhere? Delete it?
| Hate it? Worship it?

Whatever we do can we please decide to NOT email four megabyte files into
everybody's mailbox? There are webservers that can host this. You could start
with eg Google Pages if you have no other free hosting.

That said, thanks for writing and sharing docs. Sharing latex source (under
CC or GFDL or ...) would be cool too.

Dirk

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simoncourtenage

Re: A little bit of documentation

i know some latex - what kind of help do you need?

Simon

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Dima <[hidden email]> wrote:

You're absolutely right, apologies. I'll put everything online (including latex and C++
code) and will post a link. If there are people out there who know LaTex, have time,
energy and persistence and would like to put the slides in a book, let me know. I
have started to set something up and have a non-finished book version of the slides.
One can move from there easily.

Luigi Ballabio

Re: A little bit of documentation

In reply to this post by Dimathematician

On Dec 18, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Dima wrote:

> You're absolutely right, apologies. I'll put everything online
> (including latex and C++
> code) and will post a link. If there are people out there who know
> LaTex, have time,
> energy and persistence and would like to put the slides in a book,
> let me know. I
> have started to set something up and have a non-finished book
> version of the slides.
> One can move from there easily.

You'll need a version control system to collaborate. If you're not
scared by git, github might be the one with least setup effort--and
will also give you the storage for the files.

Luigi

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rob.philipp

Re: A little bit of documentation

Bitbucket is excellent for Mercurial. If you're inclined to use Mercurial.

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On Dec 18, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Luigi Ballabio <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> On Dec 18, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Dima wrote:
>
>> You're absolutely right, apologies. I'll put everything online
>> (including latex and C++
>> code) and will post a link. If there are people out there who know
>> LaTex, have time,
>> energy and persistence and would like to put the slides in a book,
>> let me know. I
>> have started to set something up and have a non-finished book
>> version of the slides.
>> One can move from there easily.
>
>
> You'll need a version control system to collaborate. If you're not
> scared by git, github might be the one with least setup effort--and
> will also give you the storage for the files.
>
> Luigi
>
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Dirk Eddelbuettel

Re: A little bit of documentation

In reply to this post by Luigi Ballabio

On 18 December 2010 at 18:00, Luigi Ballabio wrote:
|
| On Dec 18, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Dima wrote:
|
| > You're absolutely right, apologies. I'll put everything online
| > (including latex and C++
| > code) and will post a link. If there are people out there who know
| > LaTex, have time,
| > energy and persistence and would like to put the slides in a book,
| > let me know. I
| > have started to set something up and have a non-finished book
| > version of the slides.
| > One can move from there easily.
|
|
| You'll need a version control system to collaborate. If you're not
| scared by git, github might be the one with least setup effort--and
| will also give you the storage for the files.

Fully seconded re the collaboration. Works great for code, works great for
Latex too.

I am still partial to SVN and really like Google Code. But yes, all the kids
these days (and even some of the elder statesmen like Luigi :) like github.
But it is clearly not the only game in town. Sourceforge is still there too
and trying to catch up.

Dirk

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Luigi Ballabio

Re: A little bit of documentation

On Dec 18, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> I am still partial to SVN and really like Google Code. But yes, all
> the kids
> these days (and even some of the elder statesmen like Luigi :) like
> github.
> But it is clearly not the only game in town. Sourceforge is still
> there too
> and trying to catch up.

Yes---we're still hosted on Sourceforge, after all :)
But it has a few more hurdles to setup a project, while github (and
bitbucket) are instantaneous.
Also, I'm not sure that Sourceforge will accept the project if you
choose a Creative Commons license for it (which might be a sensible
choice for a book, as opposed to a library.) I seem to remember that
Nando tried it and got it rejected.

Luigi

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