On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:24 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 spent all day working hard on exactly that. I hope to make a first release of something for testing tomorrow, if all goes well. > > 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. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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.
