On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:58, Kalpa Welivitigoda <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Edward, > > > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 a lot for your detailed reply. I spent my leisure these days to > complete Sinhala lokalization in Sugar, as it is about to freeze for > the next release.
Wonderful. I'll pass this news on to my Sinhalese contacts. > So I'll look into your links and see what I can do there after the > localization is over. Perfect. >>> 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 >> > > > > -- > Best Regards, > > Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda > http://about.me/callkalpa > -- 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
