These primers are very helpful. Thanks.
Kevin
On Aug 28, 6:06 pm, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
<offray.l...@javeriana.edu.co> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks a lot for this initiative. Would be nice to have pdf versions of
> the Sage Worksheets for easy reading and encouraging of newbies to test
> sage interactively.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Offray
>
>
>
> ErikJacobson wrote:
> > Sage documentation and the tutorial are written for and by research
> > mathematicians, and can present tremendous barriers to non-
> > mathematicians. In particular, there is great interest in making Sage
> > accessible to undergraduates and high school math teachers. At the
> > recent Sage Days 13, Aly Deines, Sourav Senguptaa, and I sat down to
> > tackle this problem and decided on Sage Primers, interactive Sage
> > Notebook worksheets subject to the design principles listed below.
>
> > The design principles, a template primer, and many example primers
> > (including Ron Beezer's precocious primer for Group Theory), are
> > posted on the Sage Days 13
> > Wikihttp://wiki.sagemath.org/days13/projects/sagenewbie
>
> > In a later release of Sage, the Primers will be available directly
> > from the Notebook interface (probably under Help in some high-profile
> > way).
>
> > Any feedback is much appreciated, and collaboration highly
> > encouraged. A list of to-do primers has been posted on the wiki.
> > Primers currently under development are marked by the [name] of the
> > lead. If you would like to contribute, please follow the design
> > principles (including formatting guidelines) and post your primer to
> > the wiki or email it to myself, Aly, or Sourav. We are all on gmail
> > and our addresses (just add "@gmail.com") are listed on the wiki-page.
>
> > Regards,
> > Erik Jacobson
>
> > FYI:
>
> > Sage Primer Design Principles
> > "accessibility with low overhead"
>
> > 1. Primers give new or inexperienced users an interactive, subject-
> > specific introduction to sage functionality (functions, objects,
> > object methods, useful representations, etc.) organized around
> > specific topics and implemented in Sage Notebook worksheets.
>
> > 2. Primer worksheets should be substantive but not encyclopedic. Limit
> > worksheets to between 20 and 50 cells. If a worksheet gets too large,
> > consider organizing the material into two separate primers.
>
> > 3. Primers should contain well-chosen, meaning-rich examples,
> > illustrate common pitfalls, and provide insightful-yet-terse
> > commentary.
>
> > 4. Primers should bring together several Sage constructs within a
> > coherent, accessible conceptual package. They should do more than
> > mimic docstrings.
>
> > 5. Python and Sage programming techniques should be introduced as
> > necessary in a natural way, avoiding excessive technicality.
>
> > 6. Primers are not intended for research mathematicians and should be
> > aimed at a specific user chosen from:
> > - high school students
> > - undergraduates (underclass / upperclass)
> > - graduate students
> > - instructors using sage in secondary or undergraduate courses
>
> > 7. If possible, primers should provide links or references to more
> > extensive resources (courses, books, tutorials, etc.).- Hide quoted text -
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