2021.12.0

This is the next official TeachOpenCADD release 2021.12.0 that contains a lot of new talktorials, a new website, and a new convenient way to install TeachOpenCADD locally via our new conda package.

Note: Some changes were already part of the prior experimental release v1.4.0 but are listed here again and extended as part of this official release.

RELEASE NAMING SCHEME

• We are changing our version naming scheme from v0.0.0 to YYYY.MM.0.
• For TeachOpenCADD maintainers: Increase 0 (+1) for bugs and new features, until you want to cut the next major release with accumulated changes, which will then again be YYYY.MM.0 for the year/month of your release cut.

NEW

• More talktorials: T000 and T011-T022
• Browse our talktorials online on our new TeachOpenCADD website.
• We have a conda package now (mamba install teachopencadd), which allows our users to install all dependencies and copy all notebooks to their own workspace for local interaction with the talktorials.
• Use our new teachopencadd command-line interface (CLI) to access and install the talktorials easily on your machine.
• Set up continuous integration (CI) for Windows/Ubuntu/MacOS:
  • Test all talktorials with nbval (a) to ensure they do not throw errors and (b) to check for selected cells if the output stays the same.
  • Format all talktorials with black-nb.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Refactoring of the previously published talktorials T001-T010 (PEP8 guidelines)
• Update README (TOC figure incl. all 22 topics and references incl. our book chapter).
• Update website installation instructions (use conda package; note that Windows users have to add the defaults channel).
• Add sphinxext-opengraph extension to enable the preview of our website whenever we post the link.
• Update badges (e.g. add conda badge).