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+Hello {{ name }},
+   After the previous email about the workshop reminder, we have been
+continuously receiving calls and emails about the duration of the workshop.
+Some of the questions that were asked and the answers for them are:
+
+  Q. Is the workshop a single two-day workshop or a one day workshop
+     which is repeated on the second day?
+
+  A. Our workshop is a two day workshop. It is a single workshop. We
+     continue the second day from where we leave the first day.
+
+
+  Q. Can I attend only one day of the workshop?
+
+  A. No. We strongly advice you to attend both the days. We have designed
+     the workshop in such a way that every session has all the preceeding
+     sessions as pre-requisite.
+
+For your convenience we are giving the schedule of the workshop here.
+Please have a look at it.
+
+Day 1
+~~~~~~
++ Sage
+  - Getting started with Sage notebook (45 mins)
+    + introduction
+    + starting the server
+    + the UI
+    + getting help
+    + overview of what's available in Sage
+    + basic calculus
+    + basic algebra
+    + basic plotting
+    
+  - Symbolics, Calculus & Basic Plotting(1 hr)
+    + parametric plots
+    + 2D
+    + 3D
+
+  - Linear Algebra (45 mins)
+
++ Basic Plotting (using pylab) (1 hr)
+  - getting started with ipython
+  - using the plot command interactively
+  - embellishing a plot
+  - saving plots
+  - multiple plots
+  - saving to scripts and running them (from ipython)
+  - running the same thing in sage notebook
+- change language to python, import pylab, simple plot, savefig
+
++ Plotting Experimental Data (1 hr)
+  - plotting points with lists
+
++ Arrays (1 hr)
+  - make a reference to earlier example of squaring as motivation
+    and say that there are loads of other goodies
+  - give examples like find sin of a list of million elements
+    using for and then use sin(an\_array)
+  - getting started with arrays
+  - accessing parts of arrays
+  - 1d slicing
+  - 1d striding
+  - 2d slicing
+  - 2d striding
+  - lena example of above
+  - element wise operations
+  - matrices
+  - one slide ( det, inv, norm )
+
+Day 2
+~~~~~~
+
++ Scipy (1 hr 30 min)
+  - least square fit
+  - Roots
+  - introduce basic functions
+  - Solving Equations
+  - ODE
+  - reinforce function
+  - FFT
+
++ Python Language: Basics (1 hr)
+  - basic data-types
+  - strings
+  - Operators
+  - I/O
+  - conditionals
+  - loops
+  - while (Fibonacci)
+  - range, for (exercises)
+  
++ Python Language: Data structures (1hr 30 min)
+  - manipulating lists
+  - dictionaries
+  - manipulating strings
+  - getting started with tuples
+  - sets
+  - spend time on examples
+
++ Python Language: Advanced (1 hr)
+  - functions
+  - defining functions
+  - keyword arguments and default arguments
+  - using python modules
+  - writing re-usable python scripts
+  - PEP-8?
+  - download PEP 8 and keep it handy
+
++ Demonstration of PyTask(the web app)
+  - Workflow to be followed for the Textbook Companion Project
+
+
+Waiting for the sun to rise!
+ - FOSSEE Team

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+[Textbook Companion Project] Resolving confusion about the workshop
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