Hi, On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 04:24:10AM -0700, mmarco wrote: > 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?
If both are ready, why not having an option "step_by_step" or "hint_only" (or whatever convenient). Also, notice that "integration_hint" will break the tab completion of integrate, so maybe it could be better to propose an option "hint=False" to the existing integrate generic function (to be discussed, i do not have strong opinion on that). Ciao, Thierry > - 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. -- 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/20190819123009.6hlc2nvamyyg7scx%40metelu.net.
