bettermathematics/bettermathematics.github.io

Better Mathematics is a collaborative platform where staff and students of all years can share academic resources for courses offered by the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh.

Better Mathematics is a collaborative platform where staff and students of all years can share academic resources for courses offered by the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh.

Contributing

If you want to find out how you can contribute to Better Mathematics by either

• sharing your resources so that others can freely use them,
• or modifying the source code of the website to add a specific feature that you think will be useful,

then please have a look at the contribution guidelines.

bettermathematics.github.io's Issues

PhD Students

This is a really cool resource! Would there be appetite for adding a section for PhD students? A lot of the content doesn't seem specific to undergrad / taught-postgrad and I'd be happy to help with filling the gaps on PhD specific resources (I'm the outgoing PhD rep in the school).

File sharing (restricted to student access)

Students already have sharepoint and onedrive access through their office 365 accounts. There is already a student folder on the sharepoint. Should, rather than a google drive integration and EASE authentication for access, we set up our own subdirectory in the student sharepoint folder?

(apologies if this is an incorrect use of the issue feature, I am a new user of github)

Requesting contributor status

Please can I be granted contributed status so that I can approve (my own) pull requests?

LaTeX rendering

Full year button & make View all default

When viewing a page for a specific year, there are buttons to View semester 1, View semester 2 and View all. It would be nice to also have a button to filter full year courses.

Moreover, the default when the page is loaded is currently semester 1. Consequently, when clicking on the acronym of a semester 2 course in the list that appears on the top of pages for years 3 to 5, there is no response. You first have to switch to View all to get a response. Therefore it would be better to make View all the default option.

Making <details> tags nicer

On the Start page, a lot of content is hidden using the <details> tag. It breaks a line and thus occupies a lot of space. Using the <summary> feature does not work on Firefox (it makes the arrows disappear and therefore it is not clear that one should click on it).

It would be nice if someone found a better, more aesthetic solution.

Make YAML front-matter as simple as possible

Many of the markdown files for the courses include a lot of information that I presume can just be retrieved from the _data/courses.yml file. For example:

---
title: Introduction to Number Theory (MATH10071)
year: 3
semester: 2
course-acronym: int
archived: false
pinned: false
---

In this case, I believe archived and pinned default to false anyway, so it is not necessary to specify them, and also the title, year and semester fields are all specified in _data/courses.yml. It should be possible to make it so that you only need to specify the course acronym, and the rest of the variables necessary for the page can be retrieved from _data/courses.yml.

This would just eliminate a lot of unnecessary repetition.