ICalico Development 2014 BMC

Goals:

• be able to use ICalico via a server for fall 2014 courses (Programming Languages, and ESEM)
• documentation
• examples
• JavaScript visualizations
• JavaScript SpreadSheet interface
• spelling checker
• bibliography support
• commenting by others
• grading support
• other functionality as needed
• clicker-style feedback
• question/answer widget
• wiktionary (in-notebook word look-up)

Monday, June 30, 2014

Documentation:

• http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ - Original definition of "markdown"
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown - General overview of markdown
• https://github.com/chjj/marked/tree/master/test/tests - Marked tests, should document all features/variations
• https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown - Additional syntax allowed with "marked"

Source:

• https://github.com/ipython/ipython
• https://github.com/chjj/marked
• https://github.com/cfinke/Typo.js

Spelling Checking:

• http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-dev/2014-June/014159.html
• https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/3216

Miscellaneous:

• https://www.gitbook.io/ - Publish Markdown book (has foot notes)
  • https://github.com/chjj/marked/pull/431 - footnote patch for marked