Dear users,
In preparation for the user workshop, I had created a Virtualbox virtual machine (VM) with a pre-compiled ET and several other utilities (see ticket #780: https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/780) installed to facilitate use of the ET for new users. Unfortunately, another VM had been deployed at the workshop for that same purpose before the existence of my own VM was made known to the organizers; thus mine never saw use. Here are the links to it:
https://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dcastl2/etk/etk_2.2.ziphttps://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dcastl2/etk/etk_2.2.zip.md5.txt https://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dcastl2/etk/etk_2.2.zip.md5.txt https://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dcastl2/etk/etk_2.2.vdi.md5.txthttps://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dcastl2/etk/etk_2.2.zip.md5.txt
I would like to propose re-purposing my VM for an automated tutorial. For an (unrelated) automated testing project, I created a system which can automatically detect sub-images within a screen shot and move the mouse cursor to click on the sub-image (see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xck7w-UeX8). It can also do automated keyboard entry. I would like to port this system to my ET VM to follow tutorials for setting up ET, running the WaveToy demo, thorn writing, etc. The tutorials would be interactive in the sense that they could be paused to allow for the user to give input. Such a system would provide an interactive ET tutorial which is accessible to everyone.
Please let me know if you think this would be a worthwhile endeavor. If so, feel free to make any suggestions toward its development and feature set.
Regards,
Dennis Castleberry dcastl2@tigers.lsu.edu