No, I mean something that is closer to doing math on a notebook, the only thing that shows up is the work. With the notebook it is a linear progression (up and down) of entries of code, followed by output. I want to create something that gives the user the ability to make entries (pardon the lame terminology) side-to-side as well as up-and-down. The idea is that python code is hidden behind beautiful LaTeX and the user can choose to completely ignore looking at the actual code, but also gives the user the ability to do more serious stuff in python. I am thinking of something that would basically be a GUI for SageTeX.
It might sound lame to power users, but sometimes I just want to work on math, not computer code, like I did in high school. I want the material I am working on be immediately presentable. If a GUI for SageTeX had buttons and other GUI items to insert both LaTeX and sage into text file, then that text file is immediately rendered by LaTeX and sage, the result would be a nice worksheet that looks like a page out of a notebook, but has the power of sage. I wouldn't call myself very good at programming, but this is something I want to do and I am trying to learn all I need to do this. It might take years, but I want to make this, hopefully this is something that is interesting to others as well. Jonathan Schultz On Wednesday, August 7, 2013 12:39:09 PM UTC-6, William wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Jonathan Schultz > <jonathan....@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I hope this is the appropriate place to post this. If not, let me know > and > > please forgive me. > > > > I am a Mechanical Engineering student, so I do a lot of math on the > > computer. Sometimes I need only a "scratchpad" to do simple hand calcs, > and > > sometime I need to sit down and carefully develop a script. It would be > very > > nice to be able to take work I have done on a scratchpad and develop it > into > > a more involved program. > > > > In the past I have used programs like smath studio as a scratchpad > because > > it is basic, and it is easy to make my work look visually appealing to > > someone who doesn't do computer code. > > > > I want to see if there is any interest in developing a similar user > > interface for sage, perhaps using sagetex and a units module. I think > the > > power in a user interface like this is that it would be easy to do quick > > calcs without getting into python code, but there would be the ability > to > > develop those quick calcs into a full-blown python script. > > > > I hope that explanation isn't too confusing. > > > > So is anyone interested in developing a GUI like this? > > Do you mean something like the notebook in sagenb.org or the > worksheets in https://cloud.sagemath.com? > > William > > > > > Jonathan Schultz > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "sage-devel" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to > > sage-...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
