> Is anyone actively using this, daily, as part of their course work, > as would be done with Matlab, Mathematica, and the like? Perhaps at > Sage Days 4, there could be some discussion of how well it works in > practice, both for full-time classroom use (i.e., not as an "off to > the side" curiosity), and for math research. One aspect to consider > is how often, in these uses, do you run into dead-ends, parts of the > package that aren't yet implemented. > > > I'm teaching multivariable calc in the fall and plan on using it then. In order to prepare for that, I'm having a student at UCLA go through Mathematica packets used here to look for exactly these kinds of dead-ends. He and I will report on what we find.
On a similar note, I have a couple of ideas to increase SAGE's visibility (okay, maybe 3): 1. Once we have a feature-frozen version of the calculus package up and running, it might be nice to get a table at the joint meetings. I think it's pretty expensive, but there might be some other way to have a significant commercial-like presence at the meetings. This seems to be a sure-fire way to get thousands of new people exposed to SAGE in a weekend. 2. I think it would also be interesting to organize special sessions on SAGE (either in sectional or national meetings) couched as either teaching or research sessions. 3. Just like Mathworld has a bunch of Mathematica code interspersed, I think it would be interesting to have a bunch of sage code interspersed throughout Wikipedia or PlanetMath. I understand there are a bunch of possible issues with these ideas, but I just wanted to throw them out there. N --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
