On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Kaw, Autar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello David: > Thanks for your comments. > > I understand your concern about high cost of the computational packages, > but most universities have license to one of them. It does force the > student to use it in campus labs if he/she does not want to buy. > > Developing worksheets in other programs costs money and needs > acceptance. Although NSF is funding the project, I and my fellow > developers have used so much of their time beyond what NSF is paying us.
I understand. Hopefully, you will keep Sage in the back of your mind for future projects. > > Let me know at which university you are using the resources. I posted a link to your webpage here: http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/wdj/teach/sm212/index.html#links > Sincerely > Autar > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Joyner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 11:15 AM > To: Kaw, Autar > Cc: SAGE edu > Subject: numerical methods and Sage > > Prof Autar Kaw: > > Your website http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu/ is > excellent! I'll link to it from my Differential Equations > class webpage so my students (teach in the math > dept but most of my students are engineering majors) > can check it out. > > One question: You use Maple, Matlab and other > (expensive!) commercial software on your website but > have nothing for Sage, which is free and open source. > As far as I know (looking at about 10 random pages > on your website), Sage can do all the things you do > using those commercial programs. Sage can be downloaded > and installed from www.sagemath.org for free. > In fact, you can even use Sage online (www.sagenb.com) > for free without havig to do any download or installation. > Hopefully, you will consider creating Sage worksheets for your > teaching modules as well? > > If you reply with comments or questions, I hope you will > allow me to cc the sage-edu email list (where your webiste was > recently discussed). That is the list devoted to education-related > Sage development. > > Thank you for your time and consideration. > > - David Joyner > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
