This project is in part a repackaging of "Sage for Newbies" in a modular, more contribution-friendly form. The smart_calculator primer covers most of what Ted had in his chapters on Sage computations and symbolic manipulations. I hope his programming chapter will get subsumed in the programming primer, to be developed.
No need for us to stop! Hop on board whenever inspiration strikes. In general, a primer is a great way to collect Sage functionality around *any* topic as you learn it with the great bonus of preserving your research efforts for your future self and others. We are all graduate students and there's been some talk of primer-izeing courses as we take them, something of immediate use to other students and instructors. There are many possibilities... a collection of your classroom examples organized around some theme might make a very nice primer! Erik On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Great idea! I have long thought about this, as well as the fact that > the tutorial is not really appropriate for most introductory students > who are scared of anything non-clickable, but have ended up doing what > I needed to in class or on a worksheet specific to the project > involved, nothing systematic due to lack of time. I particularly like > goals # 4 and 5, which I try to emulate in my own introductions. > > You may also want to look at the "Sage for Newbies" project, which is > I believe now defunct but still may have some useful perspectives and > is somewhere on the main website under documentation. > > Please post here again when you run out of steam; by that point some > of the rest of us might have built enough energy to take on a few of > the ones you still need! > > - kcrisman > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
