On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:03:23PM +0200, Francois Maltey wrote:
> François, too often maple-user at work
Let me use that occasion to mention that François has lots of
experience using computer algebra in undergraduate teaching, and is
the main author of emacs's mupad-run, designed specifically to fit his
class room needs.
Speaking of mupad-run: one feature I (and I guess François) would
really like for the notebook would be a mode where computations could
only be launched from the bottommost cell, and previous cells could
not be modified (except maybe deleted/hidden) combined with a good
history system. In short, a notebook analogue of what one gets in
sage's text-mode interpreter.
That was a strong design decision for mupad-run, and the rationale was
that it made it far easier for the teacher to have a clue about what
the student had done, and in which order. Also, it can help beginners
which do not yet have a good sense about computation steps and
dependence between them, to have a one-to-one visual correspondence
between the order in which cells are laid out, and the order in which
the corresponding computations were run.
Of course, this mode could be toggled off once the students have more
experience.
Cheers,
Nicolas
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Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
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