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Prayas Abhinav builds software for the courses he teaches. It lives here rather than at his own address, because a tool a student is required to sign into should not sit at the teacher's front door.
There are three kinds of thing here. A course, which runs for a term and then stops. The resources made for it, which do not stop. And the machinery underneath, which nobody is meant to look at.
Arranged by what a thing is, not by where it is hosted. The addresses are at the foot of each entry, in this type, because reaching something is a smaller fact than what it is.
One at a time
A course is the only dated thing on this page. It opens, it runs, it closes, and its surfaces close with it.
Seventh-semester interaction design. Students build a smart object end to end — the idea, the specification, the Linux system underneath it, and the thing itself.
The day's work, your project, your standing. Sign-in required, roster only.
dsl.teachsite.orgEvery command the course uses, with what it actually does.
cli-reference.teachsite.orgThey outlast the course
Made for a course and then given away. Each course adds its own, and they stay up after it has ended — which is the whole reason they are not filed under the course that produced them. Prayas calls these the offerings.
A format is a shape that has already decided part of what belongs in it. A specification is one. A brief can be a format, an interview is a format, a monologue is a format. Twenty-five of them, free to take and change, CC BY 4.0. This one names no course at all.
formats.teachsite.orgThe commands one course needed, written out so somebody who has never opened a terminal can follow what each one does. Made for Designing for Smart Living; useful without it.
cli-reference.teachsite.org140 terms from the same course, each given plainly and then precisely, cross-linked, with an essay on what Linux is doing inside a smart object.
glossary.teachsite.orgUnderneath
Machinery. These are called by other programs rather than opened by a person, and there is nothing here to read.
An OpenAI-compatible address a student points her own client at, so a team of five shares one account and each member keeps their own credential and their own queue. It has no page: it answers, it does not show you anything.
router.teachsite.orgThe intention is a single sign-in across these tools, and eventually across Anant. It does not exist. Today each tool checks the university account on its own, and this line is here so the gap is stated rather than discovered.