psych-study

A small script to create tests for a psych study conducted by UBC students as part of coursework (study details here).

Overview

My specifications are as follows:

• Given a list of 110 words and a 110 photo files (.png) arrange them in to sets of 5 x 4 arrays.
• The arrangement of words or pictures must be random and there cannot be any repeats in any given set.
• The ouput must be in .pdf format.
• There must be 100 such outputs.

My implementation is as follows:

1. Use Python to randomly (uniform distribution) select photos or words.
2. Use Python to to create 100 formatted LaTeX files with the selected photos or words.
3. Use a Windows PowerShell script to batch compile the 100 LaTeX files (using pdflatex, so the outputs are pdfs).

Contents

photos : where the given input photos are located

photos_output : where the photo outputs are located (haven't compiled, so it is just in raw .tex form -- PowerShell script is also located in this directory)

words_output : where the photo outputs are located (haven't compiled, so it is just in raw .tex form -- PowerShell script is also located in this directory)

PSYCH217-ItemList.txt : .txt file containing the list of words

generateTeX.py : the Python script that generates the LaTeX files