Open Resources for Community College Algebra (ORCCA)

An open textbook for basic and intermediate algebra written with PreTeXt

Legal Stuff

Copyright Portland Community College.

Open Resources for Community College Algebra is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Under this license, any user of this textbook or its contents must provide proper attribution as follows. If you redistribute all or part of this textbook, then you must include in every digital format page view (including but not limited to EPUB, PDF, and HTML) and on every physical printed page the following attribution:

Original source material, products with readable and accessible math content, and other information freely available at pcc.edu/orcca.

The Portland Community College name, Portland Community College logo, ORCCA name, Open Resources for Community College Algebra name, ORCCA logo, and front and back cover designs are not subject to the Creative Commons license and may not be reproduced without the prior and express written consent of Portland Community College.

(So if you make your own copy of this book, you may not name it "ORCCA", etc. This helps our students avoid confusion if they find your copy on the internet.)

We can grant individual licenses that don't have some of the Creative Commons restrictions, but you will need to contact us first. All inquiries can be sent to orcca-group@pcc.edu.

Versions

Several versions of this book have been under development since 2016. View the 2nd edition at https://spot.pcc.edu/math/orcca/ed2/html/frontmatter.html.

We are currently devleoping the 3rd edition. The content will have revisions, and there will be more technology features with the HTML copy of the book.

Build Your Own Copy

If you'd like to build your own copy, you can follow the steps below. Things are set up so that you will only build the first section of the book. You can make adjsutments to build more later. But it takes a lot of time to do a complete build. Also, it will build from edition 3, which is a work in progress. In some steps below, you may see PTX:ERROR: a lot, but this is only because large portions of the book are commented out for now.

1. Install (or update) the PreTeXt CLI. You will also need a LaTeX installation like TeXLive as mentioned in the "External dependenies" section.

2. Use git to get this orcca repository. If you are not sure how to do that, try this tutorial

3. On the command line, change diretory to orcca/.

4. Run: pretext generate latex-image (or as noted on the CLI installation page, maybe python -m pretext generate latex-image or python3 -m pretext generate latex-image)

5. Run: pretext generate webwork (or maybe python -m pretext generate webwork or python3 -m pretext generate webwork)

6. Run: pretext build html (or maybe python -m pretext build html or python3 -m pretext build html)

7. Run: pretext build pdf (or maybe python -m pretext build pdf or python3 -m pretext build pdf)

8. The output files are in orcca/output. A convenient way to view the HTML output is to run pretext view html. Use ^C to end the local web server when you are done.