Paper: Campaign for IT literacy through FOSS and Spoken Tutorials (Kannan Moudgalya)

This is the first draft and will be edited a little more over the next week.
Try a google search for "python glue language" - but here is one example:

http://www.quora.com/Python-programming-language-1/Why-is-Python-called-a-glue-language


On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:30 PM, kannan-moudgalya <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> In papers/kannan_moudgalya/main.rst:
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> > +  Indian languages, to help children who are weak in English, while retaining
> > +  employment potential. The effectiveness of conducting workshops using spoken
> > +  tutorials is explained. A total of 400,000 students have been trained in the
> > +  past three years through one or more FOSS SELF workshops.
> > +
> > +  Students who undergo SELF workshops can create textbook companions, which
> > +  contain code for the solved problems of given textbooks using a particular
> > +  software. A Python Textbook Companion is a collection of Python code for a
> > +  given textbook. These companions and the associated textbook, together, form
> > +  a low cost document for Python in general, and the textbook, in particular.
> > +  We have completed approximately 80 Python Textbook Companions and another 80
> > +  are in progress. From textbook companions, the students can progress to lab
> > +  migration activity, the objective of which is to migrate labs based on
> > +  proprietary software to FOSS. Interested students are trained to use FOSS
> > +  systems in their projects and to contribute to the development of new FOSS
> > +  systems. Using this approach and Python as a gluing language, we have
>
> I have not seen any usage of glue as an adjective.
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