Nils wrote: > Scientific calculator programs already abound.
What I like about a SAGE-based calculator is that it can be advertised as being among the most powerful scientific calculators in the world. People can be told that this calculator is like the wardrobe in the Narnia series. When people use this calculator, its like falling into a mathematical Narnia that is as rich and interesting as Narnia itself. The other-worldly people who built the "calculator" (SAGE) can be thought of as living inside of the calculator and anyone who uses SAGE can enter that world and communicate with the world's creators :-) > 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. This is an excellent idea :-) My goal with this specific calculator is to change it into something that progressively exposes SAGE functionality until the user has evolved to the point of being an actual SAGE user. For example, I would like to change the memory functionality so that the results of calculations are saved in SAGE variables. I would also like to allow the user to bind SAGE scripts to the unused buttons of the calculator. Ted --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
