On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:22, Kalpa Welivitigoda <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda from Sri Lanka and I'm reading for my > degree in Electrical Engineering. I love maths and maths is highly > used in my studies and I though to join this project and share my > knowledge.
Welcome. > For the moment, I am contributing to Sugar in lokalization and in > packaging sugar activities for Fedora. Excellent. I have a possible project for your consideration, to turn Ken iverson's final version of his APL programming language into a Sugar activity and also to package it for Fedora. Iverson taught primary school arithmetic once using a loaned IBM 360 with Selectric printing terminals, and wrote textbooks on Arithmetic, Algebra, and Analysis. Here is a little bit of Arithmetic. 2+3 5 i. 3 0 1 2 1+a =. i.3 1 2 3 a+/a 0 1 2 1 2 3 2 3 4 and so on, with builtin functions for polynomials, permutations, solving systems of linear equations, trig, hyperbolic, exponential, hypergeometric functions, a derivative operator, and much more. Command-line, Web, and GTK versions are provided. The language, now called J, was recently put under GPL3, and the textbooks under Creative Commons-BY-SA. I have started to enter the algebra book on the Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks server. Links: http://jsoftware.com/ J downloads, docs, mailing lists http://booki.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/_edit/ As it says http://booki.treehouse.su/algebra-an-algorithmic-treatment/ I will create a J version of all of the Math4Team content. > So if there's any way I can contribute to Math4Team I highly appreciate. Likewise. > Thanks in advance > > -- > Best Regards, > > Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda > http://about.me/callkalpa > _______________________________________________ > FourthGradeMath mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks _______________________________________________ FourthGradeMath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath
