On May 16, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Nathan Ryan wrote:
> > >> Is anyone actively using this, daily, as part of their course work, >> as would be done with Matlab, Mathematica, and the like? Perhaps at >> Sage Days 4, there could be some discussion of how well it works in >> practice, both for full-time classroom use (i.e., not as an "off to >> the side" curiosity), and for math research. One aspect to consider >> is how often, in these uses, do you run into dead-ends, parts of the >> package that aren't yet implemented. >> >> >> > I'm teaching multivariable calc in the fall and plan on using it then. > In order to prepare for that, I'm having a student at UCLA go through > Mathematica packets used here to look for exactly these kinds of > dead-ends. He and I will report on what we find. Great. > 1. Once we have a feature-frozen version of the calculus package > up and > running, it might be nice to get a table at the joint meetings. I > think > it's pretty expensive, but there might be some other way to have a > significant commercial-like presence at the meetings. This seems > to be > a sure-fire way to get thousands of new people exposed to SAGE in a > weekend. > 2. I think it would also be interesting to organize special > sessions on > SAGE (either in sectional or national meetings) couched as either > teaching or research sessions. > 3. Just like Mathworld has a bunch of Mathematica code > interspersed, I > think it would be interesting to have a bunch of sage code > interspersed > throughout Wikipedia or PlanetMath. These are ideas. So far, I've seen no (or almost no) code on either of the latter sites. Does it show up at all? If nothing else, SAGE code could take center stage in articles on computational math that "we" could write and contribute. I think anyone can put fingers to keyboard and drop an article on the site. > I understand there are a bunch of possible issues with these > ideas, but > I just wanted to throw them out there. Oh, don't throw them out until we've had a chance to ridicule them :-} Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large, Director Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income -------- The path of least resistance: it's not just for electricity any more. -------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
