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Improve Example Code Readability

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with the code examples on the documentation's examples page, especially the Plant Location with Non-Linear Costs example, and compare it with the linked rewritten version. Use that comparison to define which readability improvements should be applied to the examples and how the revised documentation should present them.

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Description

Maybe this is because I'm coming from more of a software engineering background than an operations research background, but I find the code examples in the documentation to be very dense and hard to read.

I like the examples, there are some interesting problems there and the code samples do show you how to use the mip package to get solutions to them.

However, if you put yourself in the shoes of someone who is evaluating mip and trying to imagine how it could be integrated into an actual production system, the code examples fall pretty short.

I figure this is a pretty low-priority issue, but I thought I should at least bring up the topic and provide an example of how the code samples could be improved.

I've re-written the Plant Location with Non-Linear Costs example as a way of showing what could be possible. If you're interested, please compare my re-written version with the original one. I believe my version is much more readable and would give a reader who is unfamiliar with mip a better sense of how it could be integrated into a larger system.

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