--- David Airey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maarten Buis' presentation using Stata is a model one for teaching
> something using Stata. He uses the viewer to show code and slides,
> but hyperlinks in .do files to execute code, etc. Really effective.
> There are of course bits and pieces of this approach in existing
> help files, but here it is done more completely.
As much as I would like to take all the credit, honesty compells me to
say that I learned most of this from a presentation by Nick Cox at the
2007 Nordic and Baltic Stata Users' Group Meeting
( http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/nsug07.html ), and he informed me that
he in turn learned most of it from a talk by Vince Wiggins at the 2004
United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meeting
( http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/usug04.html )
Although I like this way of presenting, it is not the most user
friendly way of distributing the presentation: the presentation
consists of a .zip file with 77 different files. To help make sense of
it, it does contain a readme.txt explaining where to get started, but
some have understandably overlooked that file and got lost. For that
reason I have copied the content of the readme.txt below:
================== begin readme.txt ========================
The following steps need to be taken in order to view this
presentation:
1. Extract the files in the .zip file to a separate directory.
2. Start Stata
3. Use -cd- to change to directory where you extracted the files from
the .zip file.
4. Type -view mlbsnasug08.smcl-
=================== end readme.txt =========================
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434
+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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