Here's a few comments about the home page of the notebook.
http://localhost:8000
I'd appreciate what others think.
1) I was always taught that if you list items, you don't put a comma before the
last "and". i.e. one should write
A, B, C and D.
and not
A, B, C, and D.
but this page seems to break that rule on many occasions.
2) If one installs the notebook, there's a fair amount of help available in
http://localhost:8000/help/
but there's no link to that from the homepage. In fact, it can't be seen until
someone logs in.
IMHO, there should be a link to the help page even if one is not logged in and
it should be available even if one is not logged in.
3) Section "Use an Open Source Alternative"
I think "mathematics packages" would sound better than "math packages".
4) Section "Use Most Mathematics Software from Within Sage"
=============
Sage makes it easy for you to use most mathematics software together. Sage
includes GAP, GP/PARI, Maxima, and Singular, and dozens of other open packages.
=============
has a few too many occurrences of "and" in my opinion. Also, I think the word
"source" is missing. I think it would be better as
=========
Sage makes it easy for you to use most mathematics software together. Sage
includes GAP, GP/PARI, Maxima, Singular and dozens of other open source packages.
========
5) Section "Use a Mainstream Programming Language"
refers to Python as a "scripting language". I personally don't feel the word
"scripting" belongs in there.
6) Add hyperlinks to Wikipedia for some of the terms used.
calculus
number theory
cryptography
commutative algebra
group theory
graph theory
numerical and exact linear algebra, (I guess one would need to split that into
two).
7) Add Hyperlinks for Magma, Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, GAP, Singular and any
other packages mentioned by name.
8) There's no mention of statistics or R, yet statistics must be one of the most
common areas of mathematics people use.
9) I am still of the opinion we should change the default port from 8000 to
8080, as firewalls often block 8000, which is reserved for another use, whereas
8080 is reserved for an alternative HTTP server.
Dave
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