A set of free-to-use resources for teaching Computing. Published under CC BY licence.
Presentation software has been refereed to as slideware jail.
Traditional slideware is hard to proofread, and tweaking text size and alignment on large decks feels like a waste of time.
... taking the contents of a single text file (markdown) and turning it into a completely acceptable and usable slide deck.
Quote from DeckDown
Online Document editing tools are also insufficient. We would not have an approval process. This would be damaging once a critical size of collaborators is reached.
We want to create a set of teaching resources that
- Facilitates collaboration
- Changelog
- Comments
- Approval
- Version control
- Use industry software development tooling
We can use Git and Markdown.
https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet
If we use MarkDown/SVG to describe our content, there are system for exporting to:
- Slideshows
- HTML
- Powerpoint
- PDF's
- Books
- A4 Handouts
- Websites
There are plugins for Markdown to render
- Mathematical symbols
- UML
- Musical notation (abc)
At this point we have not settled on a particular renderer. Below are some examples and further reading.