David Joyner wrote: > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Kaw, Autar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello David: >> Thanks for your comments. >> >> I understand your concern about high cost of the computational packages, >> but most universities have license to one of them. It does force the >> student to use it in campus labs if he/she does not want to buy. >> >> Developing worksheets in other programs costs money and needs >> acceptance. Although NSF is funding the project, I and my fellow >> developers have used so much of their time beyond what NSF is paying us. >>
I ran across your (excellent!) site about two weeks ago when I decided to teach Gaussian Quadrature as an extra topic in my honors calc 2 class. I found the presentation very nice, and one of the options I thought of was making a Sage worksheet "translation" of your existing pages. I understand that you may not have time to do such a thing, but would you be opposed if we did, as we had time and/or need? Would you consider posting links to such worksheets if they became available? As it was, I combined information from several sources to make my lectures, but ended up with a nice "interact" (like a Mathematica Manipulate demonstration) for Sage. You can see screenshots here: http://wiki.sagemath.org/interact/calculus#Gaussian.28Legendre.29quadrature You might find it interesting to see other "interacts" posted at the above site as well. These are snippets of code that work in the Sage notebook, an online interface that students can access from anywhere. I find them very effective for classroom demonstrations. We do not have Mathematica here at Iowa State U. (at least not readily available to the students), but every student has access to my interact on the class sage server, or can paste the code into the public sage server at http://www.sagenb.org. Thank you again for your great work! Jason -- Jason Grout --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
