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Re: Explanation



"Explanation difficulty" probably is not quite accurate term. I remember it was something like "level of explanation" originally, meaning that smart people understand short explanation and those not so smart need somewhat expanded one. Another idea, even more important for us was that different explanations can interpret a topic in totally different ways. Well, it is a matter of terms only, because a value (set manually by the author, I think) telling a student how expanded an explanation is must be of help.

Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
There are two numbers: sequence and difficulty, remember?
At least that's what is in spec.

Alexey Parshin wrote:
Second attempt, something went wrong ..

2006/10/19, Alexey Parshin <alexeyp@gmail.com
<mailto:alexeyp@gmail.com>>:

    Latest and greatest DB schema. PNG format should be even easier to
    open, however it doesn't contain any documentation :(

    2006/10/19, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh < ilya@total-knowledge.com
    <mailto:ilya@total-knowledge.com>>:

        Since explanation is shareable, you need many-to-many between
        it and
        topic anyways, and you can add extra field in there for
        sequence numbers.

        Alexey Parshin wrote:
        > It looks like the implementation of the sequence number
        requires a
        > separate table. Do we need it that badly?
        >
        > 2006/10/19, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh <
        ilya@total-knowledge.com <mailto:ilya@total-knowledge.com>
        > <mailto: ilya@total-knowledge.com
        <mailto:ilya@total-knowledge.com>>>:
        >
        >     Anatoly Volynets wrote:
        >     >  "Number is really associated with Topic, not with
        explanation,
        >     as an
        >     > explanation
        >     >  can be shared between different topics." - the latest
        addition
        >     to specs.
        >     >
        >     > I don't see how it is possible. Explanation is for THIS
        topic,
        >     nothing
        >     > else. It can be shared like any other UMO, but no more,
        no less
        >     than
        >     > that.
        >     Correct. And sequence of showing explanations is property of
        >     topics, not
        >     property of explanations.
        >     If I include your explanation in my topic, I can assign
        my own
        >     difficulty level
        >     and sequence number to it.
        >
        >     --
        >     Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
        >     Total Knowledge. CTO
        >     http://www.total-knowledge.com
        <http://www.total-knowledge.com>
        >
        >
        >
        >
        > --
        > Alexey Parshin,
        > http://www.sptk.net

        --
        Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
        Total Knowledge. CTO
        http://www.total-knowledge.com




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