Thanks for the response and the tips. I agree. When I saw the notebook server at work I thought: wow, this is the way things ought to go. There's a lot of stuff to digest on the threads you suggested, I'll tell how I'm doing as I go along.
BTW, I found the following in the Wiki: http://wiki.sagemath.org/DanDrake/JustEnoughSageServer Anybody had any experience with it? On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:11 AM, kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> You didn't say if this is a classroom lab (so all of your students will be >> using >> Sage at once) or a math computer lab for out-of-class homework (so students >> will go in at random times, convenient for them). Others can answer your >> questions more definitively than I but I think their answer will >> depend on the number of >> students using Sage at the same time. > > I agree. Marshall, you've done the computer lab situation, right - > any thoughts? > > The out-of-class-time situation definitely calls for the server, I > think, because otherwise people have to make that trek to the computer > lab without any real reason. As long as you have enough memory and > are able to make sure not too many students use it at once, it should > work; there are several threads on sage-support about this, e.g. > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/6735e88260cc079/4bfcd447910d26cd > or > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/b57c78d4e01a30ed?q= > the latter one addressing the possibility of having multiple ports. > >> > 3. Set up a Sage Notebook server. Pros: easy for students to use, >> > access their work from anywhere in the world. Cons: have no idea how >> > to do it. (I can get help setting up a web server, that is not the >> > problem, the question is how to set up Sage and the notebook server. >> > The web server, and Sage, would be running in a Ubuntu server). >> > > I agree with David on this one; I think it is the kind of thing that > is not too hard (Sage is pretty robust, and so is VMWare). It will > take a little effort to set up - but I think not too much, and once > our sysadmin got it running he said even I could learn how to reset it > in case something crashed, which is saying something. > > Good luck! The notebook server aspect is a really nice feature of > Sage for education, because it makes things so convenient for students > that they might actually do more than they expect... and that's a good > thing. > > - kcrisman > > > > -- "The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection." -Bertrand Russell L. Felipe Martins Department of Mathematics Cleveland State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
