Hello, On Friday, August 15, 2014 3:54:44 AM UTC-5, kcrisman wrote: > > Thanks, Jonathan! > > >> I believe from discussions with him that Steve Singleton at COE college >> has converted some of the common Maple/Mathematica/Matlab worksheets into >> sage. His web site is http://www.public.coe.edu/~ssinglet/. >> >> > And I believe he has some interest in the notebook as well. >
I'm late to the thread, but happy to learn of others interested in using sage in chemistry. Several people asked for more information about sage at the recent BCCE meeting (I saw Jonathon Gutow), so it sounds like I need to get serious about sharing more stuff. Echoing or adding to things mentioned earlier in the thread: I started by translating a lot of T. Zielinski's and J Noggle's MathCAD stuff to mma, and then to sage which I've used the past couple years. I've also adapted or written pogil-like activities that utilize sage. All of this hopefully gets students playing with quantum and thermo concepts like eigenvalues, orthonormality, data fitting/analysis, some group theory, etc. The goal was/is to go beyond trivial examples that can be solved by hand and use 'real' tools for 'real' problems. SMC (sage math cloud) is a great way to get going quickly and efficiently...no setup problems. I used it almost exclusively last year, and my students *did* use it exclusively. SMC is a full-blown unix env. with dozens of tools if you or your students are interested in other areas of technical computing. I'm still figuring out the best work flow for assigning and collecting homework with SMC, but William Stein is adding new functionality that will likely make this smoother. I keep a local sagenb server running for occasional uses: - sharing older worksheets; SMC doesn't have a "publish worksheet" system yet (I understand it will), but you can distribute sagews files via transfer (git, cp, email, etc) or shared projects. SMC can import sws files if you find useful materials on other sagenb servers that pop up in web searches. - visualizations requiring 3D. Effort has gone into beefing up the 3D capabilities in SMC, but I haven't figured out how to do several things that "just work" with jmol and sagenb. There are only a few exercises (e.g., orbitals, ESP, cube files) that are impacted, so I just show these in class with either sagenb or IPython notebooks running on my laptop. (I've promoted the use of contour plots over volume rendering...not really a bad thing since nobody uses topo maps any more.) If there is interest among even this small group, I'm can spend some time cleaning up worksheets, seek distribution permission for the translated work, and put the stuff on github or elsewhere. Might be nice to have a library of materials so we aren't building from scratch. And thanks to Jonathon and Karl-Dieter for reminding me about an ancient web page in dire need of attention! Another stale project... Thanks, Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
