On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Jurgis Pralgauskis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> SAGE is big, time is limited. Python is easy, but not all students
> know it and like writing code.
> I'd like SAGE to have what wxMaxima is for Maxima.
>
> That is main actions can be achieved by clicking buttons instead of
> writing code.
> Html is very flexible to invent all kinds of UI,
> but I don't know how this would fit into notebook framework
>
> For example when user selects the syntax (maxima/r/whatever),
> it can at once propose the menus
> (there could be different collections of menus even for the same
> syntax, which could be loaded with notebook command)
> I think this could become similar to "macros" (at least in M$ office I
> know macro can be called with custom button).
>
> I think this would play very well with interactive input idea
> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu/browse_thread/thread/1e89fc0a71d2db6e
> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/1e89fc0a71d2db6e
>
> I understand Ted Kosan went for http://mathrider.org with similar intention
>
> but back to sage notebook -- for now, I can imagine such macros could
> generate notebook code put it in a cell and run it,
> but for the math user it might be more convenient not to see the code
> by default (with option to look at it when needed)
>
> I am curious when in the roadmap this could happen?
> and how good in general nb framework is for this, what should be
> changed/added?
>
Have you seen the interact command? Check out some of the demos here:
http://wiki.sagemath.org/interact
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