Lorenzo It would be great if you release your code under a friendly license so that we can have a look. I was refactoring for fun a little expert system too. I never got until the end but I should finish once.
Stef On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:26 AM, Lorenzo Schiavina wrote: > Hi Phil and Hilaire, > > I have already developed a simplex in ST. > > Lorenzo > > Da: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] Per conto di > [email protected] > Inviato: lunedì 13 agosto 2012 16.37 > A: [email protected] > Oggetto: Re: [Pharo-project] Dr. Geo for acadamy > > Hi, > > Doing nice formulas in Pharo would be of interest to me. And manipulating > them even more (I am busy with that now). > > As for Geogebra as competition, these guys are now doing a ton of 3D (we use > GG here with my wife, a maths teacher) and their DSL is pretty useful once > mastered. I find myself constructing a lot of things from the little "command > prompt" of theirs. That would be an interesting addition to DrGeo (and why > not being GG-compatible on the commands). > I know I can get a browser and all, but that's not cutting it the same way. > > DrGeo is Java-free, so where can we use it where Java is not fine? > > I'll look at what I can propose for engineers to work on. I'd add that a > solver for constraints would be nice to have (like Simplex). > > Also, a good thing to add to DrGeo is a window with a list of entities with > their name and possibility to rename/change attributes from there. Once the > things get complex, this is a godsend in GeoGebra... > > KR > Phil > > > > 2012/8/13 Hilaire Fernandes <[email protected]> > > Hello, > > Thinking aloud. May be I already discussed the following ideas with some of > you. > Dr. Geo is now mature enough to learn from it and to propose it as a tool > students in computer science and/or mathematics can use for final projects or > study projects. > The idea is to propose student programming projects around Dr. Geo. A list of > projects should be drafted and designed to be appropriate for students. I am > not really sure about the level of difficulties, the duration such project > could take, but listing ideas could be a good start. Moreover, I don't know > if the idea elaborated in this document make any sense, so your feedback on > that point would be greatly appreciated as well. Another requirement could be > to list why students will benefit working in a project around Dr. Geo, to be > done later if the idea take off. > > Regarding Dr. Geo project itself the benefice is more to gain in visibility > and not in contributions coming from students work, indeed sudents will more > likely maintain the project only for the duration of their studies. But more > visibility on Dr. Geo can mean more long term contributors, hopefully from > the academic sector. Dr. Geo need it to scale up and to compete with other > alike project like GeoGebra where the contributors are numerous. If not, Dr. > Geo will remain an epiphenomena and the great concept behind Dr. Geo, modify > me from myself, will be lost. > > Regarding the project ideas, I see two categories: projects of interest for > Dr. Geo and other Smalltalk ones and projects tightly related to Dr. Geo core. > > 1. Projects of interest for Dr. Geo and other Smallktalk software: > - framework to render latex formula > - mini-worksheet package to embed in an application > - supplementary Polymorph widgets > - mini algebraic system for symbolic manipulation of mathematic expressions > - proof system, prolog or purely Smalltalk based > > 2. Projects tightly tied to Dr. Geo: > - SVG, EPS exporters > - new UI paradigm to build interactive sketch > - porting to other system, closely related to Virtual Machinery > - More constructions tools, it is a very good teachable as it dives you in an > application with a lot of design patterns in action. See following document > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/drgeo/+spec/todo-to-implement-new-tool > > There are more ideas. > If you think about any person involved in the academic sector, please > forward, this is why I wrote the document in Frenglish after all. > > Thanks > > Hilaire Fernandes > > -- > Dr. Geo - http://www.drgeo.eu > > > > -- > Dr. Geo - http://www.drgeo.eu > > > > -- > Philippe Back > Dramatic Performance Improvements > Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 Mail: [email protected] | > Web:http://philippeback.eu | Blog: http://philippeback.be > > High Octane SPRL > rue cour Boisacq 101 > 1301 Bierges > Belgium
