On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:18 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to decide if Sage's new "mathematica manipulate" like > functionality should > be called "manipulate" or "interact". I really like interact. Mainly because the term "interactive geometry software" is used to describe Sketchpad/Cabri/GeoGebra-like geometry software. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_geometry_software There was talk last week on this list about including GeoGebra in Sage. Glancing at the website suggests that we might be able to use it in conjunction with interact/manipulate. Here is an example of using sliders to change the cubic function and see the effects on the derivative. http://www.geogebra.org/en/examples/poly_deriv_exercise/poly_deriv.html As for the Mathematica users, you can always define a command called manipulate that either points to interact or instructs the reader to use interact instead. Also, as someone who hasn't used Mathematica, the term manipulate didn't suggest (to me) this type of user interaction. Hope this helps. Franco -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
