On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Sorry I expressed the idea in a wrong manner. I have not yet completed it 100%. I'm working on to get it to 100%. I have mis-typed earlier. >> 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 > -- Best Regards, Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda http://about.me/callkalpa _______________________________________________ FourthGradeMath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath
