Marshall Hampton and William Stein probably know more but I have used SAGE for a differential equations class and can tell you that, in my experience, if you encourage them (nicely) to install SAGE on their own machine the majority will do so. I also asked a relatively extroverted student from each class to test out instructions I wrote up and be willing to help other students with questions. Regarding security, I know virtually nothing but perhaps this page http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/inst/node10.html might help.
*Please* report back any experiences, positive or negative! On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:35 AM, djamous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Here at Harvard, we're interested in using SAGE for a Physical > Sciences course this fall. The course is part of a series of > introductory college physics and chemistry courses intended to > students in the life sciences (including pre-meds). > > We want to provide a computational element to the labs and provide a > gentle introduction to programming concepts and techniques. Some of > the exercises we envision for the students will include: > - plotting data > - file I/O > - random number generation > - numerical integration of equations of motion (this would be the most > advanced exercise) > > We like the idea of using python for that purpose and the SAGE > environment appears very attractive, in part because it saves us the > step of asking students to install python and related modules on their > own machines. > > My question to the group is: given that the class has about 200 > students, do we run the risk of overloading the server if, in the > worst-case scenario, all students are running their programming > exercises at the same time? We will, of course, encourage them to > install SAGE on their own machines to alleviate that risk. A related > question is: how do you deal with security on the SAGE server (say how > do you prevent a user from running malignant scripts after registering > and logging in)? > > Thanks for any info you can share on these topics... > > We're very excited at the prospect of using SAGE. > > Daniel Jamous, Ph.D. > Senior Specialist for Instructional Computing in the Sciences and > Social Sciences > Instructional Computing Group > FAS Information Technology > Harvard University > > 617-495-7571 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://icg.fas.harvard.edu > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
