On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote: > Hi > > > > On 25 September 2014 20:01, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I read W. Stein's blog on why he thinks Sage is failing since it isn't >>>> on par with Maple, Mathematica and other Ma*'s *now*. >>>> >>>> I teach high schoolers and college students. At that level Sage is more >>>> than adequate as a replacement for all Ma*'s now. >>> >>> >>> I am curious as to what parts of Sage you use. I suspect you are using >>> it mostly as a front-end to Maxima, >>> In which case -- have you considered using Maxima directly, esp. >>> wxmaxima? >>> >>> Thanks for any info. >>> >> >> >> My hope is that the open-source math ecosystem can have this attitude in >> general - it's not a zero-sum game by any means, at least not at this time. >> And so there are some things that Maxima is not as well suited for as Sage - >> and yes, many people use those things. Or perhaps some instructor needs an >> interface thing. Or (and truly this is nontrivial) the underlying >> programming language *does* make a difference, and Python is just ... >> easier. (For instance, one of my current students learned to program on >> paper, I am told. She did not use a computer for it until she arrived here >> and now she actually knows how to use Python after three weeks - I was not >> the teacher, btw.) >> > > And it was quite likely Pascal being learnt on paper.
For what it is worth, my first programming language was C learned on paper, probably around 1981. I had no access to a computer, but I knew how to read, and somehow obtained a book on C, which I read and simulated. -- William > > Regards, > Jan > > -- > .~. > /V\ Jan Groenewald > /( )\ www.aims.ac.za > ^^-^^ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org wst...@uw.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
