Intelligent students use any valuable software... And poor students
like open source... Look in india, in china where studying is reserved
to rich people, but not always the most intelligent ones
Le 28/01/2016 21:54, Juan Luis Varona a écrit :
>
> But let me a reflexion, not for you but for the sage community
(sorry for my
> bad English): I'm s university math professor in Spain, and I
explain
> sagemath to my students. How is possible to promote sagemath
between the
> students if only to install it is so complicate, also in a mac?
>
> We use sage at classroom, but most of the students hate it; they
prefer 10^6
> times to use a pirate copy of Mathematica.
>
> Please, try to improve the usability of sage for non programming
> experts!!!!!
The community of mathematicians and math teachers have so far chosen
to financially (and otherwise) support Sage at about 0.01% of the
level that they support Mathematica. I fear that you do not know who
writes Sage, where Sage comes from, or how it is funded.
Until the mathematical community is willing to support -- in real
ways
(money!) -- open source math software, they are very naive to expect
the same level of polish for the masses that can be provided by the
effort of thousands of employees (which Mathematica and Matlab
collectively have).
Much open source volunteer work is currently massively under
appreciated and this is one of the biggest mistakes of society of
this
decade.
-- William
What you say is true, of course. But perhaps the lack of money is not
the guilty of mathematicians and math teachers, but of the persons
and organizations that decide the funds for research.
In any case, this does not change the problem: students do not like to
use sage.
Unfortunately, this is the truth.
Juan Luis Varona
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