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[BOOK+SCREENCASTS] Digital Research Methods with Mathematica

POSTED BY: William Turkel
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Just read this new interview from @William and thoroughly enjoyed it:

https://medium.com/tech-based-teaching/digital-research-and-open-texts-an-interview-with-william-j-turkel-bce085527934

I think it's very useful especially to new technical writers who can learn from William experience and approaches.

POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov

Thanks, Vitalyi! It was interesting to finally get a chance to talk to Jesika Brooks about the book, screencasts and the course. Her questions got me thinking of the wider context of creating open textbooks like this one.

POSTED BY: William Turkel

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I just signed into the Community for the first time and found this. What a treat!

Thank you so much for this wonderful resource.

W

POSTED BY: Wonner Naus

@William, this is an awesome book! From my contacts I know that it is very appreciated by many and that you have a great readership. The book is also used in classrooms. Thank you very much for the announcement of the screencast companion! 100 videos is quite a production. How long did it take you to record them? Wonderful work!

POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov

Thanks, @Vitaliy Kaurov! I think it took the better part of a month to make the screencasts. I was using ScreenFlow software and found that the file sizes tended to get pretty large for anything over about 10-15 minutes. That is fine, because many experts on online learning suggest that things like videos and screencasts should not be much longer than that.

POSTED BY: William Turkel

This is simply a fantastic resource thank you!

Not even included in the table of contents above is an additional (nearly 50 page) section at the end of the textbook with ideas for further digital humanities projects and experiments often linking to existing data and sample code to get one started.

POSTED BY: Arno Bosse

Thanks for the kind words, Arno!

POSTED BY: William Turkel
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