Curriculum builder

[hdelan]

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Usually in the lead up to training events, we pick a subset of sections that we want to do for a particular session. We then usually develop on these branches and apply lots of fixes to these branches. Once we have moved sections around it is often difficult/painful to push latest updates on new branches back up into main.

This new script makes a reduced curriculum from main for a list of sections.

Example:

$ bash generate-curriculum.sh 6 8 18B 12
Have generated curriculum with

Code exercises:
Exercise_01_Vector_Add
Exercise_02_USM_Vector_Add
Exercise_04_Temporary_Data

Lesson materials:
Lecture_01_Data_Parallelism
Lecture_02_Using_USM
Lecture_03_Think_Performance_Portable
Lecture_04_Advanced_Data_Flow

This will allow us to do most of our maintenance/development on main, and only generate the workshop specific material at the very last minute, by running this script from main and then making a new branch.

@ProGTX @rodburns @AerialMantis @illuhad @keryell

[keryell]

I think this addresses somehow https://github.com/codeplaysoftware/syclacademy/pull/215#issuecomment-1509643598

[hdelan]

@AerialMantis I've just added some stuff that tracks dependencies across chapters. Are you ready to approve this? Would be good to get off the backburner

[hdelan]

I could make a TODO to split the existing exercises into buffer and USM versions and then the correct exercise is chosen based on whether USM or buffers have been covered in the syllabus

[hdelan]

Here is a sample curriculum https://github.com/hdelan/syclacademy/tree/test-curriculum-builder . All the links in the new curriculum's README point to the correct places.

Making a reduced curriculum and then building with ninja works as expected. I think this should be ready to merge if I can get a quick review @DuncanMcBain @rafbiels