Chapter 7 Template chapter
7.1 Overall goal of the chapter
In this section we will describe what the overall aim of this chapter and target audience including:
- What they are already expected to know (their previous knowledge)
- What are the goals of the audience
Learning objectives
- What you will learn
- What you will be able to do at the end of this chapter
- What you will not learn & what to read instead
- Where to go from here
7.2 Section 1 (topic 1)
Each section developed within the chapter should contain a narrative to give a bit of a context and again demonstrate the target audience (if needed). Beyond it should provide topic-specific learning objectives and examples, which are to be intertwined with so-called self-check exercises which will allow the reader to assess his comprehension of the topic so far.
Exercise 1: The exercise description to be in the coloured box & the small, control exercises should be placed at the end of the subsection.
7.5 Further resources
In this section we provide links to additional websites and sources that are useful in a given topic or package in the following way:
7.6 Summary
This closing section should show the reader what has been done in this chapter and how it links with the topics provided in the next chapter by a brief introduction to next topic.
7.7 Exercise solutions
- Exercise 1
#code to exercise 1 only, results hidden - Exercise 2
#code to exercise 2 only, results hidden7.8 Putting into practice
[we are not decided if these sections necessary, may be too cluttered]
This final section is aimed at consolidating the knowledge and skills learned throughout the whole chapter, where the reader can put them into practice in a more complex working example with a new context.