Hi William! On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:08 PM, William Purcell <[email protected]> wrote: > > All, > > To introduce myself, I am in my second semester of grad school at > Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. I use python for pretty > much everything I do programming wise but I am far from knowledgeable > (about a year experience). I really enjoy programming and I try to > make an excuse to code any chance I get. I have been using > scipy/numpy and matplotlib quite a bit in the last year for classes > and research. I am really interested in learning how to effectively > use a CAS, specifically sympy.
Excellent, great to hear that! > > I am trying to think about how to do homework assignments and > derivations with sympy. I really have only been able to make real use > of sympy (and maxima before I found sympy) with algebra (solving > block diagrams) and basic integrations/differentiations. Do you know > of any good examples of doing derivations with a sympy or any other CAS? > I have ran across plenty of tutorials for using maxima and sympy but I > have never ran > across an in depth comprehensive derivation or something. The > tutorials usually have a title along the lines of 'Learn Maxima in 5 > minutes' or something. I have also seen the examples in the sympy > source distribution, but most seem to simply demonstrate basic sympy > capabilities, as they > probably should. In short I am looking for a couple comprehensive > examples to learn how to think about using CAS. Maybe other can join in, but I think at least examples/intermediate/ and examples/advanced show plenty of advanced stuff to do with sympy. Also a good source of information are all the tests that we have. I think the best thing is to try to think how to solve your problem and then just try it. And ask here on the list whenever you run into any troubles. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
