Hi Sage-devel, I gave a 3-days Sage formation in Montreal on July 14, 15 and 16th that I like to call "Jours Sage au LaCIM" :
http://wiki.sagemath.org/SébastienLabbé/JoursSageUQAM<http://wiki.sagemath.org/S%C3%A9bastienLabb%C3%A9/JoursSageUQAM> We could say that this formation corresponds to "Quebec Sage Days 2" since Franco Saliola gave a course on Sage here in UQAM last year in May 2008. There was between 10 and 20 persons at all times in the room. I invited students from all Universities in Quebec Province and it worked well since there were representatives from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Université de Montréal, University McGill and Université du Québec à Montréa (UQAM) and some professors as well. Since I gave myself only one day to prepare everything, I re-used a lot the work done by the community : * Lectures and Worksheets given by Franco Saliola in Siena in June 2009 * Sage Introduction Lectures given by Franco, William Stein and Harald Schilly * Sage Lectures given by William Stein in 2008 for the course 480a Many thanks to all of you. I also used the Project Euler problems and Franco's worksheets as exercices to fill up the schedule. I think people liked the formation since many stayed until the end! I know many of them really liked the example I gave that illustrates sagetex (see devoir.tex file available on the link above). I tried also to note every questions people were asking as well as every thought I was having while giving the course : * SageTex Bug : Apparently, using \sage inside of a \caption in a figure environnement doesn't work yet. * SageTex Bug : Apparently, using \sage inside of a eqnarray* doesn't work (maybe as well for eqnarray, equation and equation*) * Somebody wanted to compute the limit of a sequence of functions....and I said I didn't know if Sage or one of its package could do it. * Somebody published a irrelevant worksheet (to test the button) and wanted to cancel it but he was not able. He then delete its worksheet, but apparently the worksheet was still published...:( * People were asking if Sage was available in Debian, I said work was being done : http://wiki.sagemath.org/DebianSAGE * I like to use %timit u = compute(100) in the command line, but this doesn't work in the notebook. I always have to use the timit('compute(100)') instead. Why? * I try to do some search in the sage-devel group from its own web page, but it apparently finds only the very recent messages. For example, searching "Siena" doesn't show me the message Franco wrote about the talk he gave in University of Siena : "Your search - * Siena* - did not match any documents." Is this a parameter of the google group? Do we have a control for this? * Somebody wanted to work on Noncommutative polynomial Ring. Does it exist in Sage? * Somebody is doing his research in Differential Equations. He already use Maple and Matematica a lot for it. He already knew about Macsyma and Maxima. He would like to have more feature about this subject in Sage. He could contribute to Sage to build features for DE but he doesn't know where to begin and if the way he thinks it will correspond to what Sage wants... * The same somebody likes the idea of defining in Sage object and translate it from one system to the other. One reason is that he told me that he prefers the sage latex output for some object. I think translation of objects could be more consistant. For instance : sage: A = matrix(2, [1..4]) sage: B = maple(A) sage: C = B.sage() sage: C = sage(B) # Why does this way doesn't work ?? I know I have more ideas, but when I don't write them down, I forget them. So, I will share them later when they come up. Au plaisir, Sébastien Labbé PhD Student LaCIM, UQAM, Montréal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
