On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:53 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What should be included in the tutorial that's not already there? In > another thread > > <http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_frm/thread/ > 77ddcfefa972bb9b/53fda9a549b12d63? > lnk=gst&q=dirichlet#53fda9a549b12d63> > > Marshall Hampton made these suggestions: > >> 1) In calculus/differential equations, give a cythonized version of >> Runge-Kutta, and maybe an @interact example on different numerical >> methods; there are a couple of @interact things on the wiki that could >> be chosen or combined for that. Is it possible to include screenshots >> in the tutorial (.pngs)? > > Yes, it is possible to include pngs in the tutorial. I've posted a > version of the tutorial with a few pictures here: > > <http://www.math.washington.edu/~palmieri/Sage/tut/tut-pix.pdf> > > The pictures appear around page 20, in the plotting section. These > also appear just fine in the static html version (but not in the live > version, which doesn't bother me too much, since users can evaluate > the code to reproduce the pictures). > > However, I can't decide if the interact stuff should be in the > tutorial. The results are great, but the code required to produce > them might be daunting to beginners. So should we include some > @interact examples or not? If so, is it best to have a separate > section on @interact (this is what I'm thinking right now) or to > scatter a few @interact examples throughout the manual, e.g., in the > diff eq section?
+1 to having a section on interact, and +1 to having some examples spread around in the tutorial. Make it crystal clear that the notebook is required to use interact. > >> 2) The tutorial should have some simple stats examples, pretty early >> on I think. I'm not sure what exactly to suggest though. Probably >> better to use scipy.stats instead of R for pythonic continuity. > > I think a section on statistics is a good idea, but I'm not the person > to write it. > > How about some graph theory? Other combinatorics? I don't know Sage's > capabilities in these areas, so what's worth including in the > tutorial? Sage has tons of graph theory and combinatorics at this point. Robert Miller? Mike Hansen? Want to write something? > > What else? > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
