Months ago we posted a first draft of a Sage tutorial, written mainly by David Monarres, with some from me and with support from San Diego State University. We now have it in much better from, using reStructured Text.
There are four parts to the tutorial: “How to use this tutorial” has basic instructions about using and amending the tutorial, and the others have mathematical content. “Sage as a Calculator” is intended, as the title suggests, to cover straightforward computations, plotting graphs, and content that one might find in a high school algebra course, introductory statistics or calculus. We intend it to be accessible to an entering college student, or to a bright high school student. “Programming in Sage” eases the transition to higher level mathematics by treating topics that relate to the interface between mathematical concepts and computational issues. This chapter covers basic structures like: lists, sets and strings; the universe for a number or variable, rational numbers versus real numbers; programming essentials like booleans, conditionals and iterative computation; file handling and data handling; etc. “Mathematical Structures” is written at a more sophisticated level than the earlier material, since the intended audience is college students taking upper division math courses. The emphasis is on learning about specific mathematical structures that have a Sage class associated to them. The final part is still rough in places, but we hope to work on it this month. We'd love to have comments, contributions etc. License is Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Mike -- 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.
