Getting back to what kcrisman wrote, I had my own experience in my first approach to a 4-year school (UW) for the transferability of a class we are (were?) planning to develop (I teach at a Community College). Their point was that the Engineering School at this university *requires* matlab on DAY 1, so a student who had a sage-based class would be in disadvantage with his peers because of the learning curve the first weeks.
So pretty much the option is to have a MATLAB based class, or no transferability (the exact words were not that, but that was the point). The reaction at my College? *Ok, lets get it done with matlab then*. I have problems with that decision and the whole thing has been on freeze for the last few months. Edgar On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:02 AM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Jason Grout > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > kcrisman wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Nov 16, 9:35 am, [email protected] wrote: > >>> Well, if MATLAB is the issue, you can install Octave and still use a > >>> SAGE notebook! > >>> > >> > >> You'd think so, wouldn't you? But I've been assured by our > >> engineering head that there are enough syntax differences (however > >> minor) and the issue of many, many drivers being available for Matlab, > >> and not for Octave, that he's not interested in Octave. From his > >> point of view (which I respect), it's all about making students > >> optimally prepared for getting the best job, or best grad program, or > >> whatever. In math, this is not the same kind of issue. > >> > >> Not trying to pick a fight, just reporting what I've been told - I > >> have no independent knowledge of this other than anecdotal. If there > >> is a significant segment of the engineering community that uses Octave > >> in day-to-day operations, that would be very interesting to know. > >> > > > > Does anyone know the status of the matlab<->Sage interface? I don't > > have a copy of matlab handy, so I can't test it. > > Matlab is installed on sage.math. It passes its test suite: > > wst...@sage:~/build/sage-4.2.1$ ./sage -t --optional > devel/sage/sage/interfaces/matlab.py > sage -t --optional "devel/sage/sage/interfaces/matlab.py" > [4.4 s] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > All tests passed! > Total time for all tests: 4.4 seconds > wst...@sage:~/build/sage-4.2.1$ > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
