On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 05:17, Dr. David Kirkby <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma. 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. > +1 > 3) Section "Use an Open Source Alternative" > > I think "mathematics packages" would sound better than "math packages". > +1, especially since maths is used rather than math in some parts of the world. > 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. > ======== > +1 > 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. > +1 > 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). > Perhaps. I think it's reasonable for people to look up these topics on their own though, and excessive links can be distracting, especially since a link to Wikipedia isn't really canonical. > > 7) Add Hyperlinks for Magma, Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, GAP, Singular and > any other packages mentioned by name. > +1. I think this is a bit different from the general topics, since there's an official page to link to, rather than just Wikipedia's article. -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
