Re: Explanation

["Alexey Parshin" <alexeyp@gmail.com>]

Is it something of { brief, good, full, complete, overwhelming } ?

2006/10/19, Anatoly Volynets <av@total-knowledge.com>:

"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.
>>         >
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>>         >     Total Knowledge. CTO
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>>         >
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