* Wow! Thanks for posting this topic and your techela.

* Suggest an "Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp" and OrgMode be everyone's first, and maybe last, required course in grade school--other than Reading, Writing and Arithmetic of course!

* Suggest all students download this free book and conquer it:

http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/robert-chassell/an-introduction-to-programming-in-emacs-lisp/ebook/product-17413062.html

** A masterpiece by Robert J. Chassell.

* Also suggest his free online copy of "Software Freedom: An Introduction", for more philosophy on the Free Software movement, to benefit students and teachers.

** Most especially chapter 13, which covers why non-free software limits learning--and a whole lot more:

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/softfree/softfree/software-freedom.html?revision=1.23#Limits-to-Learning

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:48 PM, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

All of the code is here:
https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/tree/master/techela

and there is some documentation in the README.

I am not sure how much work it would take to try it yourself though. You
need to setup a gitolite server (that is described in the README), and
more importantly figure out how to get this in your student's hands. For
windows users, they can just clone jmax, and it should run out of the
box (it has an emacs in it).

"Marvin M. Doyley" <mdoyley@me.com> writes:

> Very cool indeed.
> I would love to try this for a small course that I will be teaching in the spring semester.
> Is your code available?
> Cheers,
> M
> Sent from my iPad
>

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