On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:19 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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.)
LOL. Of course, deleting all input cells has the advantage that nothing can go wrong! :-) > > - 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 > > -- 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 sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
