Re: [IAEP] wolfram's mathematica

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Walter Bender wrote: >> There has been some interest expressed in building a mathematics >> environment in Python... > > No need to build from scratch; it already exists: > >

Re: [IAEP] wolfram's mathematica

On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > There has been some interest expressed in building a mathematics > environment in Python... No need to build from scratch; it already exists: I spoke to one of the developers, who in turn spoke to the project l

Re: [IAEP] wolfram's mathematica

There has been some interest expressed in building a mathematics environment in Python... Might be a better place to put our collective energy, at least as far as the XO is concerned. -walter On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESS

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-09-30

Hi, I'm guessing some on this list are already aware of Classroom 2.0 (http://www.classroom20.com/). But, just in case, I thought it bore mentioning. There may be room to coordinate / collaborate with Steve Hargadon who is the site's prime mover as well as someone who puts on a great traveling r

Re: [IAEP] wolfram's mathematica

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:27:13AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > wolfram's mathematica page says: >> > Mathematica has been ported to the OLPC "$100 laptop" > >Mathmatica has a licence fee, GeoGebra http://www.geogebra.org/ is >free, (GNU Gener

[IAEP] Sugar on a Stick - How might a Sugar USB experience work in practice?

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > David and I > will be helping set up a Sugar classroom in a Boston public school > that trying to make use of some old Pentium IV desktop machines; > > 2. LiveUSB: It seems that a LiveUSB offers the most simple way to

Re: [IAEP] wolfram's mathematica

> > wolfram's mathematica page says: > > Mathematica has been ported to the OLPC "$100 laptop" Mathmatica has a licence fee, GeoGebra http://www.geogebra.org/ is free, (GNU General Public License), and would be even more interesting to see on Sugar/XO Tony ___

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-09-30

Hi Walter et al, On this: > So why doesn't someone set up a social-networking site?ideally integrated with the popular tools such as Word Press?to enable bloggers to find a willing peer to suggest revisions before the publish button is pressed (a "Send to editor" button)? Such an exchange need n

Re: [IAEP] wolfram's mathematica

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Robert Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> wolfram's mathematica page says: >> *Mathematica* has been ported to the OLPC "$100 laptop" >> http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/analysis/content/MathEducationSoftware.html >> >> I can't see it on the activities p

Re: [IAEP] wolfram's mathematica

> wolfram's mathematica page says: > *Mathematica* has been ported to the OLPC "$100 laptop" > http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/analysis/content/MathEducationSoftware.html > > I can't see it on the activities page - does anyone have information about > this? Mathematica is available fo

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-09-30

=== Sugar Digest === First, an aside: I introduced the concept of peer editing in the Floss Manual on the Write Activity by referencing the late Don Murray, who taught generations of journalists how to write. He had three simple rules for great writing: 1. revise 2. revise 3. revise Rev

Re: [IAEP] wolfram's mathematica

On Sep 30, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > Porting > Mathematica itself to the XO is an entirely different matter--don't > know anything about it. There's no big wisdom to it. They already have a Linux version, so the only trouble IIRC is the big Java runtime dependency. -- Ivan Krsti

[IAEP] Fwd: Cambridge (F-10) Beta release announcement

Nice to see Sugar in the release notes! Marco -- Forwarded message -- From: Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:12 PM Subject: Cambridge (F-10) Beta release announcement To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fedora 10 Beta: Cambr

Re: [IAEP] wolfram's mathematica

About one year ago, I got their Demonstrations Project running within Sugar on an OLPC-XO--it ran quite well--but I wasn't able to convince them to actually go the next step to "Sugarize" the viewer. Porting Mathematica itself to the XO is an entirely different matter--don't know anything about it.

[IAEP] wolfram's mathematica

via rob costello wolfram's mathematica page says: *Mathematica* has been ported to the OLPC "$100 laptop" http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/analysis/content/MathEducationSoftware.html I can't see it on the activities page - does anyone have information about this? -- Bill Kerr http://b