Calculus 1 lectures finished
The multi-stage procedure is completed:
- prepare for the lecture by creating the initial notes;
- deliver the lecture (with a tablet) which always ends up very different from the textbook or the notes;
- save the notes as a Journal file (and also in pdf, for the web);
- edit the Journal notes: rewrite in full sentences to make the text more readable, clean up illustrations, proofread;
- transcribe the notes into TeX, put the result online with illustrations inserted;
- edit this text: make it more narrative, improve formatting, add links, proofread again.
The whole procedure is more time consuming than I expected initially. Stage 5 is especially hard and has required help (thanks Tom!). Stage 7 should be further polishing and more proofreading. I hope one day to be able to add stage 8: make the illustrations more professional.
Besides Calculus 1, other courses are at various stage of completion:
- Differential Forms is in the middle of stage 6.
- Linear Algebra is at the end of stage 5.
- Statistics is in the middle of stage 4.
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