Just throwing this out there ... I recently saw something I found pretty interesting from CMU ...
http://csunplugged.org/activities The search algorithm exercise was focused on a Battleship lookup I think. - Jon On Mar 24, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Erik Hatcher wrote: > I've got a couple of questions for the community... > > * what's the simplest way to get Solr up and running with a relatively > richly schema'd index of a Wikipedia dump? > > What I'm looking for is something as easy as something along these lines: > > java -Dsolr.solr.home=./wikipedia_solr_home -jar start.jar > > cat wikipedia.bz2 | wikipedia_solr_indexer > > My goal is to index wikipedia in order to demonstrate search to a class of > middle school kids that I've volunteered to teach for a couple of hours. > Which brings me to my next question... > > * anyone have ideas on some basic hands-on ways of teaching search engine > fundamentals? > > One idea I have is to bring some actual "documents", say a poster board with > a sentence written largely on it, have the students physically *tokenize* the > document by cutting it up and lexicographically building the term dictionary. > Thoughts on taking it further welcome! > > Thanks all. > > Erik >
