On 11/02/16 22:56, Nicholas Tomasic wrote: > I'm a 12th grade Calculus teacher at a school in Toronto,
I'm from Scotland and so have no idea what that means, but I take it that they are in high school rather than at a college/university? > two of my students. Both are passionate about coding with Python and I'm > thinking of asking them to produce something that can either a) calculate > derivatives of simple functions or b) assign 1 student the product rule, > one the quotient rule, and have them write a program that can tackle > derivatives in those forms. Programming is usually better for numerical analysis than doing formula translations (eg calculus). However there is a library, SymPy, that is part of the SciPy bundle that allows such things. If they don't mind downloading SciPy and learning a new package it might do what you want. Have a look at this web site for a few ideas of its potential: http://www.sympy.org/en/features.html There is a tutorial that might help too: http://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/index.html#tutorial HTH -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
