> I gave a plenary talk at a big MAA meeting a few months ago. It was > entirely a live demo using the Sage notebook. It went perfectly. > Stan Wagon gave another talk in using the Mathematica notebook, and it > surprisingly had numerous bugs/problems as a result of bugs in
Yes, the same thing happened to him at ECCAD. > Mathematica's notebook. The reason my talk went well was that: > > (1) I carefully prepared it. > > (2) I carefully tested it, especially deleting all input cells then > clicking "Action --> Evaluate All" before the talk a few times, just > to make sure the talk really worked. Yes, yes, yes! This whole post is full of great comments. Should be required reading for those using Sage in lectures or more general venues. (You mean deleting all output cells, though.) - kcrisman > > Using Evaluate All before the talk is absolutely critical. > It's also a very good idea to always have a backup plan, i.e. some > sort of static version of the talk (like what Marshall describes > above, or just pdf of something) just in case. E.g, have a working > version of the talk installed and tested on a remote server "just in > case". Another easier static version that feels must more like the > notebook while being "safe" is to take screenshots of each slide in > the worksheet. > > A big problem remaining with giving a talk is the sometimes potential > random reordering of some cells when using TinyMCE, which is a real > bug though nobody knows how to systematically trigger it. This only > happens when editing a lot, so as long as your talk is good right > before you give it, then you're fine. > > Honestly, it is very hard to "sell" Sage as a tool for presenting > mathematics to undergraduates when one is afraid to actually use it to > give a talk. It's especially hard when the other speakers are giving > talks using Maple and Mathematica. Having a good presentation mode for > Sage really is important. > > -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
