Recently I started using Mathematica 6 in the computer labs of some courses I teach, and I cannot help but be impressed. The new dynamic commands such as Manipulate are very impressive, and are perfect for teaching. Before seeing how powerful it is, I had hoped to switch from using mathematica to sage in the fall of 2008. But now I am not sure I can justisfy that switch or convince my colleagues it would make sense. (As an aside: assume for the sake of argument that my department gets mathematica for free, which is true in a certain bureaucratic sense).
For some sense of what mathematica can now do, check out: http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin6/content/DynamicInteractivity/. I actually think its more impressive in person. While I would like to help remedy the gap between sage and mathematica/ matlab in this respect, I am not sure how it would be done. I am learning a little about wxPython, but I don't think that would work through the notebook at all, unless a program was created on the server for download and byte-compilation by the client. Does anyone have any ideas? If javascript is a possibility, can someone recommend a good reference for learning to use it for such complicated purposes? Or is java an option? -Marshall --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
