On Friday, March 4, 2016 at 5:59:21 PM UTC, john_perry_usm wrote: > > If there be are any Sage devs who lately have felt too successful and/or > appreciate, here's some cold water for your next shower. > > I teach a class where students learn some "advanced" math topics using > Sage. Naturally, talking about Sage is part of that. I gave a test today, > with the following T/F question that I *thought* would be easy: > > Sage is the work of a bunch of hobbyists working from their parents' >> basements. > > > You probably know where this is going... > > I'm about halfway through, and *no one* has gotten full credit on the > problem. To be fair, two people marked it False, but they were also > supposed to provide a true statement. One provided no statement, and the > other -- I am not making this up, I swear! -- wrote: > > False, it is the work of hobbyists working *from their own basements.* > > > here we just cannot afford to own a terrace house with a basement - hell, they rent these basements out for £1000 a month...
statistically, in the past year most of my Sage code was written in coffeehouses near UC Berkeley, must be something in the air :-) QED: I am either a failure as a teacher or they decided to tweak me, and > since the grades aren't that bad, it can't be the "failure" option. I'll > take your answers "off the air" as I think a good, tall drink is in order. > (Cherry coke; I don't do the hard stuff.) > > regards > john perry > > PS: In case you're wondering, yes, I do cover how Sage started on > something like the first or second day of class, and bring up from time to > time that it's based on scientific grants and the hard work of researchers. > Either my students tune me out in those occasional moments or, as I say, > they hate me... > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
