On Apr 2, 6:44 pm, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Kohel wrote:
> > I learned of WIMS (http://wims.unice.fr/) by virtue of the
> > announcement of a new lecturer
> > position here in Luminy, who is supposed to be responsible for
> > computer-based teaching
> > with WIMS (http://wims.unice.fr/). It overlaps many of the teaching-
> > related goals of
> > sage. I just downloaded it and haven't yet successfully run it on
> > MacOSX, but it has a
> > huge overlap in underlying GPL code (pari, maxima, gap) with sage,
> > lots of graphics
> > applications, and associated exercises which are an integral part of
> > WIMS (teaching being
> > the driving force). I wonder what solutions or applications they have
> > which would could
> > be run from the sage notebook, and what complementary solutions sage
> > and WIMS have
> > found which could be mutually borrowed.
>
> I once (long ago) used WIMS as a teaching tool. You can install it
> on a local server and give students access to it.
>
> WIMS can be made more viable by integrating Sage! I don't see any profit
> the other way around. Interfacing to WIMS seems to be problematic.
>
> Jaap
I think WIMS is quote nice and does mostly address the educational
market. Sage could certainly take a look at the modules they have for
classes and courses. Most of their teaching material seems to be in
French with some of it also available in Spanish, Dutch and Cantonese
[or is it Mandarin - since there is no such thing as Chinese] and
several other languages.
As far as combining Sage as an engine for WIMS: It should be fairly
easy looking at the Interface code, but the subset of functionality
they use from pari is small and they do not seems to use the pari C
interface at all. It is also GPL V2 or later.
My Conclusion? I don't know if there is more than potential for cross
pollination. Do you know the developers or somebody from the
community? Are they aware of Sage? Have they voiced interest?
Cheers,
Michael
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