On Jan 27, 2007, at 4:49 PM, William Stein wrote:
> But overall, do you think this is useful and a good addition > to SAGE? Holy friggin **WOW**. This makes it so insanely easy for someone new to start learning how to use SAGE. It's hard enough to expect people to work out that they are supposed to get the documentation up in one window and a notebook in another window :-)... let alone download and compile the bloody thing. This just changes the game completely. I think this is the first time I've really appreciated the power of the notebook interface. The first five minutes of using this was like the first five minutes I ever used wikipedia. My mind just boggled at the concept. We need a front-and-centre "Interactive Tutorial" link from the main SAGE site, going straight to the tutorial. And it really needs to say something like "hey you -- yeah you! You can actually *run* SAGE commands, right from this page! Use Shift-ENTER.". It's not at all obvious that you can do that, if you haven't seen it before. I even think it might be worth totally rewriting the tutorial with this new interactivity in mind. Do the big guns have anything like this on their websites? Maple doesn't seem to have any online documentation at all, apparently you actually have to buy it. Mathematica has something called "webmathematica" but it seems pretty cowardly compared to this. I have a feeling we are soon going to need a dedicated machine to handle these public notebooks and the interactive documentation. David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
