On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:40 PM, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Nov 11, 8:21 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Sage-Devel,
>>
>> Markus Hohenwarter (lead developer of Geogebra) and I spent a lot of
>> time talking at a conference this summer in Barcelona.   As a result,
>> he's created geogebra applets that both technically and legally (!)
>> can (hopefully) easily be integrated into the Sage notebook.    See
>> below for more details.  Is anybody interesting in trying this out?
>> Geogebra has hundreds of thousands of users and satisfy a real need
>> for a certain target audience that overlaps with our audience.
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> William, this could be really great, for many reasons - perhaps even
> funding.  I am cc:ing this to sage-edu, as some people there probably
> will be interested. I am certainly interested in trying it out, if I
> can figure out how :)
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> How did you envision the applets integrated into the notebook - on an
> on-demand basis for @interact-like things for specific purposes (say,
> drawing hyperbolic triangles), as a menu option "insert a Geogebra
> applet from list X here", or something more integrated than that into
> the Sagenb spkg?

For starters, I imagine a command, e.g.,

  geogebra(various options???)

that results in a geogebra applet appearing?  Then that could be used as a
building block for much, much more.   What do you imagine?

And yes, I imagine the actual java applet's could go into sagenb at
some point...

William

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>>  - William
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Markus Hohenwarter
>> Date: Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:04 PM
>> Subject: Fwd: Unsigned GeoGebra Applets
>> To: William Stein <[email protected]>
>>
>> Dear William,
>>
>> we now have unsigned GeoGebra applets as the default in our latest
>> release (see message below).
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>> If you would like to use them in Sage, you can use the jar files 
>> fromhttp://www.geogebra.org/webstart/unsigned/unpacked/. All jar files are
>> under GPL except geogebra_properties.jar which is under an
>> incompatible Creative Commons license. To use GeoGebra applets you
>> only need these files:
>> geogebra.jar
>> geogebra_main.jar
>> geogebra_gui.jar (needed for LaTeX rendering, and other views like the
>> spreadsheet)
>> geogebra_cas.jar (only needed when derivatives or integrals are used
>> in a GeoGebra construction)
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>> All jar files are loaded on demand only. We also have highly
>> compressed pack200 versions 
>> athttp://www.geogebra.org/webstart/unsigned/packed/with much smaller
>> sizes that our server automatically deploys to all Java 1.5+ clients.
>>
>> All best wishes,
>> Markus
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Markus Hohenwarter <[email protected]>
>> Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:37
>> Subject: Unsigned GeoGebra Applets
>> To: [email protected], [email protected]
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>> Dear friends,
>>
>> we have just released GeoGebra Webstart 3.2.31.0
>> (http://www.geogebra.org/webstart/) and with it unsigned GeoGebra
>> applets. Here are the cool news:
>> * No more security question popping up for you or your students. This
>> means easier and faster use of GeoGebra applets.
>> * One-file-solution: now you can export your dynamic worksheet as a
>> single html file. This makes it very easy to include it on your own
>> website or send it to students. Just try "File, Export Dynamic
>> Worksheet" in the new WebStart version.
>>
>> We have already updated all dynamic worksheets on the GeoGebra server
>> to use unsigned applets and thus come without the security question.
>> If you would like to learn more, please read the technical details of
>> unsigned GeoGebra 
>> applets:http://www.geogebra.org/en/wiki/index.php/Unsigned_GeoGebra_Applets
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>> All best wishes,
>> Markus & Mike
>>
>> --
>> William Stein
>> Associate Professor of Mathematics
>> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org
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-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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