I have been working a bit on some functions to help students do integration by hands. Under the hood, they use sympy's integral_steps function (see [1]), but I am not sure which is the right way to present it. The options I am considering are:
1) Go full step-by-step integrations, in the spirit of sympygamma site (or wolframalpha, if you have access to the pro version). In that case, I guess returning a text (or html) stringwould be the sensible choice. 2) Just show a hint for the next step to the student, something like: sage: integration_hint(sin(x)*x, x) Integrate by parts, with u=x, dv=sin(x)dx. So integral(sin(x)*x, x) = x*cos( x)-integral(cos(x),x) In this case, maybe we should return a specific class where the student can get the expression to follow the computation by hand. Also, we could have different display methods for different envirments (mainly, command line and jupyter notebook) So my questions are: - Which option do you think would be preferable? Show the full step by step solution, or just give hints as they are asked for? - In any case, which would be the right way to handle different representations deppending on the environments? I assume that if we have a specific class for this, it should have some __repr__, __latex__, and __pretty_print__ - Which would be the right place to put this code? I would say sage.symbolic.integral, but some time ago someone mentioned the posibility to create an education module, to put the different pieces of code that was writen with for educational purposes. What do you think? [1] https://docs.sympy.org/0.7.5/modules/integrals/integrals.htm -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/5a2555f3-30f9-4253-b318-d93ab8468dfc%40googlegroups.com.
