[BangPypers] python for management studies

[Pradeep Gowda]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Pradeep Gowda <pradeep at btbytes.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org> wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> I have been commissioned to create and implement a course (compulsory with 2
>> credits for first semester) on computer programming for business managers for
>> MBA's in a new B school that is starting up. I envisage something like the
>> nltk tutorial. Ideas and suggestions please. I will, of course, develop the
>> course in a mercurial repo, but that is the future. The idea is that this
>> should become a standard cp-101 for business schools.
>
> Very interesting development kenneth.
> Is this the NLTK tutorial you are talking about:
> http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/book/ch01.html
>
> Putting up the course in a hg repo is a good idea.
> Consider using something like Sphinx (reStructuredText + publishing
> friendly tweaks) for writing the text.
>
> Using Sphinx will make it very easy to publish the online version as
> PDF for offline reading/textbook publishing with no additional effort.
> Eg: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/ and "published" book from the same
> source: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/flask-docs.pdf
>

The link to the aforementioned Sphinx website: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/