Textbook Companion Project Details
The Scilab Textbook Companion Internship project is handled by the FOSSEE project, IIT Bombay.
Textbook Companion internship can be taken up by college students who want to undertake an internship. The project will involve a teacher/ professor who will act as a mentor. The mentor will guide the student through the project and be responsible for the student's submissions.
Procedure: Flowchart of the Procedure
You should know or learn Scilab. Learning Scliab is easy and if someone listens and practices the Spoken Tutorials provided at Scilab Learning Resources, Scilab can be learnt in 2-3 days.
For use of any other package, you should contact us separately at textbook@scilab.in
You should propose three books in order of your preference using the proposal form available at this link. You have to create a new account and log in in order to access the proposal form.
You must ensure that the book you are proposing has not been completed under this project or is not being undertaken under this project by someone else currently. Click on Completed Books and Books in Progress to see the respective lists.
You should also make sure that the proposed book has at least 80 examples. If it is found that the number of examples is less, the internship may be cancelled at later stages. We will try to allot one of the three proposed books.
To see examples of the books that have been completed, visit Completed Books.
Along with the book proposal, you are required to send a typical chapter's code from one of the three proposed books to textbook@scilab.in in a .zip or .tgz file. We will not contact you to send the code.
It is suggested that you propose the book as early as possible and do not wait for the last date as your preferred book may get assigned to someone else.
You will be intimated about the approval or disapproval of your proposal via email within 3 days. If you are selected, your name along with the textbook proposed will appear in Books in Progress.
After the final allotment, you will start coding only the solved examples of the entire book. You are required to upload the codes on the interface. Also, send the code to your mentor. Note: Lack of regularity on your part may force us to cancel your internship and the book will be assigned to another intern.
Simultaneously, you should fill the IITB registration form and post it to us. All the required forms are available at Required Internship Forms
The time-frame for completion of the book coding will be decided between you, your mentor and us.
Review of the book - The review of the book will typically take approximately 10 days to finish. In the review process, codes will be selected at random and checked. If any code is found not producing the desired result, the student will have to recheck and resubmit all the codes.
Candidates who finish the report as per specified procedures will get a certificate:
"Certified that the work completed is equivalent to six weeks of training under the supervision of the concerned faculty of IIT Bombay".
You will be given an honorarium of ₹ 10,000 for completing this work and ₹ 5,000 to your college teacher. For details please click here.
For any further query or clarification, please contact us at the following email address: textbook@scilab.in