On Sep 21, 5:24 am, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Anne <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > I am planning to use Sage in the Number Theory class I am going to > > teach this fall. It has about 100 students. Is it ok to have the > > students usehttp://www.sagenb.org/or is this not suggested? > > It can be extremely slow at times. Are the students going to use > it at random times or in a lab simultaneously or will you be using it > for in-class demos? >
Glad to hear you are doing this! I also use it - but we have an order of magnitude fewer students in the class :) For a class this size, if you are doing anything OTHER than in-class demos, I highly suggest coercing someone in your IT department to set up a local server. Having a computer lab with local copies is also a possibility, but of course defeats the ideal of having the material always accessible. Some helpful pages about this are http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageServer and http://wiki.sagemath.org/DanDrake/JustEnoughSageServer Good luck - please let us know what you decide and how things go! You may want to add an extra credit for students to find and fix any bugs they find (hopefully there will be few in this particular area of math), if you have any with good programming background. Documentation that can be improved also is a valuable contribution for any student, with or without programming experience. - kcrisman -- 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.
