On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:46:15 -0800, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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**.
I'm glad you like it :-)
> 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.
I agree. Cool.
> We need a front-and-centre "Interactive Tutorial" link from the main
> SAGE site, going straight to the tutorial.
Good idea -- I just added that.
http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/
> 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.
Agreed. This will be more work -- we need to have a notation to
have things that appear in the notebook, but not in the print manual...
> Do the big guns have anything like this on their websites?
The big guns (at least Mathemeatica), have excellent interactive
doc browsers included with their products.
> 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.
My understanding is that no commercial math software allows
for anything like what we have now, because of license restrictions.
I think it's impossible to buy a mathematica license to allow
people unrestricted evaluation of completely arbitrary mathematica
code by anybody...
> I have a feeling we are soon going to need a dedicated machine to
> handle these public notebooks and the interactive documentation.
Hopefully!
-- William
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