Scientific calculator programs already abound. As a gentle introduction to sage, you might want to consider including a side- window where the sage commands that effect the same computation scroll by. That way, one could use it as a "scientific calculator-to-sage" translator and people might be able to pick up sage syntax while typing in on a familiar calculator.
By the way, my experience is that students don't necessarily know how to operate a standard scientific calculator anymore. They only use the superfancy graphing calculators. For instance, to calculate sin(1), they would actually type in [SIN] ( 1 ) [ENTER] or [SIN] 1 [ENTER] rather than 1 [SIN]. On Dec 7, 10:55 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Ted Kosan wrote: > > > I have been working on ways to make SAGE as easy to use as possible > > for beginners because I am interested in encouraging high school > > students to use SAGE. The approach I have been working on recently is > > to embed a scientific calculator into the notebook that SAGE newbies > > should be able to start using immediately with zero SAGE training. > > +1 -- I've been wanting this feature for a while. > > > At this point I am still trying to get my mind around the details of > > the communications between the notebook and the server and I will > > probably be asking questions about the communications protocol in the > > near future. > > I wrote most of the client-side communications stuff, and it is relatively > easy to explain, so if you have any questions, feel free to send them my way. > > -- tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
