Before long, a lot of schools are going to start thinking about hosting SAGE notebooks for their students to use for both classroom and homework. I wonder if MIT open course ware for science will be integrated with SAGE. Wouldn't it be awesome if a bunch of universities had SAGE notebook super computers and there were contests between schools about who could create the best whatever?
Is there any plans to create a chat system for the notebook so that many students working together on the same project could interactive use the notebook with history and toolbars and a bunch of other stuff? Like easy code sharing. On 1/27/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
