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Home Current UR courses Visitor page Intro to WeBWorK WeBWorK 2 Twiki WW Community Grant Support & awards Discussion group Problem library Write/modify problems Create & manage course Tutorial on running a course HowTos FAQ WeBWorK2 FAQ Software Download How to Install WW server Feedback Site Map Change preferences Change password	Prev | Next | docs Intro to the PG language Tutorial Step-by-step introduction to the process of writing a problem and the basic types of problems. This covers all the essential PG macros. Shows how to use each of the various list objects useful for creating matching questions, true/false questions, and multiple choice questions that are intuitive to the students. Even covers the less tested idea of using Java or Javascript in your problems. WeBWorK Newbie Guide A Dartmouth College website, maintained and created by Prof. Tom Shemanske, covers many of the basics needed to understand and use the WeBWork system. It also contains several references on LaTeX that range from covering the essentials to being extremely comprehensive. PG language basics Basic PG language reference material. Covers some perl syntax necessary for understanding how to better manipulate data in problem. Also contains list of macros and basic references on managing answers and using answer evaluators. PG reference documents Primary reference documents. These are the comments taken directly from comments in the source code of all of the major macro files and PG packages. These comments tend to be somewhat technical and often terse but are usually the most up to date because they come directly from source itself. manpages Detailed descriptions of individual macros. (under construction) PG overview PG language stands for Problem Generating language. It is implemented as a suite of Perl macros. The underlying constructions are for the most part identical with those in Perl with the exception of the use of the backslash which is replaced by ~~ (see Perl basics below). The parts of the problem description which require calculations are written in Perl. To avoid damage to the computer system, only a portion of the Perl language is available. Commands which write to disk and system commands are disabled. Mathematical formulas are written using the syntax of LaTeX. Most commands in LaTeX start with a backslash and because of this, the backslash is reserved for LaTeX math formulas. <| Post or View Comments |> Prev | Next | docs
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