Transfer

Setting up your environment
Francisco Fern´ndez Reyes a

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1 vLearnie 2 Installing the interpreter and framework... 2.1 ... on Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 ... on Linux (Ubuntu 10.4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Installing XAMPP 3.1 ... on Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 ... on Linux (Ubuntu 10.4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 2 2 3 4 5

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vLearnie

vLearnie is a project borned with the idea of building a Personal Learning Environment (PLE). The platform Moodle is not actually a PLE, but rather a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). The main difference between PLEs and VLEs is that in the latter, the teacher is in charge of controlling your learning while in the former you are in charge of learning as much as you want. This is done by sharing knowledge with other people. The aim of this project is to use the Moodle platform to guide and teach you the basics. After that, you should have the knowledge to continue learning on your own, interacting with other people and sharing your knowledge. The way of learning on your own will be based on the tools that vLearnie provides. These are mainly through blogs, forums and communities. You should have to look for the information that interest you and share it on the platform.

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Installing the interpreter and framework...

We are going to install the interpreter for the Python language. Probably, if you have chosen to read this manual is because you are going to deploy vLearnie. vLearnie is written in Python and was developed using the framework Django 1.2. This is an important requirement, since vLearnie was released just some months before the new version of Django. Thus, if you use the new version, you could see some messages telling you that some packages are deprecated. As far as I know, GenericViews for date based url will be deprecated.

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... on Windows XP

In