Dear sage-devel, >From 25 May to 3 June, I gave a series of lectures (18 hours) on Sage at the University of Siena aimed at upper level undergraduates, graduate students and interested professors. I created a bunch of worksheets for these lessons, and thought that maybe some of you might find them useful. I grabbed problems and ideas from various sources, including William Stein, David Joyner, Project Euler, Wikipedia, ....
All the sessions were very hands-on: each session began with a very short presentation and then the students worked on the worksheets. Here is a list of the titles of the worksheets: - Worksheet 1: Getting Help - Worksheet 2: Working with Lists - Worksheet 3: First steps towards programming (Lists II) - Worksheet 4: Calculus & Plotting & Interact - Worksheet 5: The 3n+1 conjecture - Worksheet 6: Linear Algebra - Worksheet 7: The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (Strings) - Worksheet 8: Graph Theory (Dictionaries) - Worksheet 9: Combinatorics (Iterators/Generators) You can see (pdf) and download the worksheets on the website: http://www-irma.u-strasbg.fr/~saliola/sage/SienaLectures The idea was that each lesson (talk, worksheet, closing) should take about 2 hours. I found that the worksheets were to long for students with no or very little programming experience, and that they were about right for students with some programming experience. (They can easily be shortened by removing some of the exercises.) I'll be using these again, so if you have comments or suggestions, or cool problems, please send them my way. Take care, Franco -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
