On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi: > > I posted a draft of a hopefully motivating and low-level paper at > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/calc1-sage/an-invitation-to-sage.pdf > It is designed to fit into a book on calculus with Sage, as a > introductory chapter. I assume the reader is assumed to know little or > no calculus but does > have an interest in computers. Basically, if you have a "calculus with > computers" > course at your school, the student in that course is what I'm trying > to think of. It needs > to be fleshed out in spots but I thought I'd ask for suggestions > before going further > in case it seems like a bad direction to some people. > > Any suggestions? I would like to add a quote on how open source > programs often are higher > in quality (latex is an example), one that goes beyond the Okounkov quote, but > I can't remember where I saw one. Does something like that ring a bell > with anyone?
I strongly agree with everything in the pdf. It mostly feels likely an article version of the standard "intro to the motivation and goals of sage" talk. There are some things that people could criticize given your stated goals for your target audience, but I'm not going to present such criticism. Anyway, I like it. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
