[Coin-discuss] A FlopC++/COIN-Guide for beginners

[Ted Ralphs]

Hi Christian,

We are currently in the midst of some exciting changes that will be 
officially announced in the next few days, one of which is the creation 
of a wiki-based project management site for every COIN-OR project. I'm 
not sure if you have a reason for preferring Wikipedia, but we have 
created a FLOPC++ Wiki hosted at COIN-OR that seems like the perfect 
location for your tutorial (at least the FLOPC++ parts). It is located at

https://projects.coin-or.org/FLOPC++

Perhaps some of the generic COIN-OR parts of your tutorial could be 
hosted on one of the other sites we are creating to help folks with 
download and installation of COIN software. Please let us know if this 
sounds like something you'd like to do and stay tuned for some exciting 
announcements to come soon.

Cheers,

Ted

WoelliUSM at aol.com wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
>  
> 
> first of all, the more and more I work with COIN/FlopC++, the more I am 
> fascinated by the excellent work which is done here.
>  
> Because of many reasons, which I maybe mention later, I started working 
> on an FlopC++-Wikipedia <http://cardinals2.mastershrimp.com/wiki> as a 
> contribution to this community.  
> 
> As my beginning in January is not too far away, I can remember well how 
> difficult it was to start. I still think that a platform for beginners, 
> who know about modeling (GAMS, AMPL) but are new to COIN/FLOPC++, is 
> needed. FlopC++ may be a good "door-opener" to the world of COIN, as it 
> is not as difficult as the mps-format.
> 
>  
> 
> If you read the wikipedia, you'll see that I try to explain FlopC++ as a 
> C++-Class for which extensive C++-knowledge is not needed to become 
> attractive to AMPL/GAMS-Users. I try to establish some kind of "plug and 
> play" to make it easy to start with FlopC++ and COIN.
> 
>  
> 
> I'd really like to know, whether this is a desired contribution.
> 
>  
> 
> Of course this wikipedia is not finished yet, but right now I am 
> thinking of either focussing completely on FlopC++ or also explaining 
> basics of COIN. If the last option is desired, I need help from this 
> community because I am not very experienced with COIN, so I don't know 
> what is really important for starters. I am glad about every 
> contribution, note, commentary etc.
> 
>  
> 
> Greetings from Cologne,
> 
>  
> 
> Christian Woellenstein
> 
> 
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Dr. Ted Ralphs
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Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
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