Thanks for the quote (which I added) and the comment. Yes, I "borroewed" lines form your talks and Harald's talk and from our Notices letter. It needs more details relavant to a young math student, but I'll keep working on it.
I plan on eventually posting it somewhere with "The Sage group" as author, as long as there are no objections, so anyone teaching a course can grab it, tweek it to their needs, and hand it out to their students as motivation. On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:58 PM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
