On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:07 PM, David Kirkby<drkir...@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP> >> Any instructor who has been asked, after a particularly beautifully >> delivered lecture/demonstration, "Will this be on the final?" >> may have to say, oh, I guess not. You won't be using a computer >> during the final. > > Do univeristies in the US have projects as part of degree courses? > That is the time to be using advanced software - not in a final exam. I have taken a one-semester course on numerical analysis using Maple. The final exam was worth over 50% of the total mark. We were required to use a computer with Maple loaded, write Maple programs in response to exam questions, and submit Maple worksheets to the examiner. I'm dead serious. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---