Hello, Here at Harvard, we're interested in using SAGE for a Physical Sciences course this fall. The course is part of a series of introductory college physics and chemistry courses intended to students in the life sciences (including pre-meds).
We want to provide a computational element to the labs and provide a gentle introduction to programming concepts and techniques. Some of the exercises we envision for the students will include: - plotting data - file I/O - random number generation - numerical integration of equations of motion (this would be the most advanced exercise) We like the idea of using python for that purpose and the SAGE environment appears very attractive, in part because it saves us the step of asking students to install python and related modules on their own machines. My question to the group is: given that the class has about 200 students, do we run the risk of overloading the server if, in the worst-case scenario, all students are running their programming exercises at the same time? We will, of course, encourage them to install SAGE on their own machines to alleviate that risk. A related question is: how do you deal with security on the SAGE server (say how do you prevent a user from running malignant scripts after registering and logging in)? Thanks for any info you can share on these topics... We're very excited at the prospect of using SAGE. Daniel Jamous, Ph.D. Senior Specialist for Instructional Computing in the Sciences and Social Sciences Instructional Computing Group FAS Information Technology Harvard University 617-495-7571 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icg.fas.harvard.edu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
