On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:11 AM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Harald Schilly<harald.schi...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> We should do more screen-casts for introduction. >> >> >> from http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sage-Math/26593144945 >> >> Mark Olson: I have created a screencasts to help get my students up >> and running with sagenb.org. >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_NtcfCfK-4 >> >> Mark Olson: One more screencast ... to give my students a little bit >> of an overview ... of what I can simply summarize as INCREDULOUS! Keep >> up the amazing work behind the scenes making Sage possible. Thanks >> again SageMath TEAM :D >> Thanks to all the hard work ... people that I do not even know are >> putting into making Sage INCREDULOUS! >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWNw_rg4V08 > > Wow, I watched this latter one > (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWNw_rg4V08) and it's extremely > interesting to watch from a developer's perspective. In 3 minutes > the guy goes through a really *huge* tutorial, all done on sagenb.org, > involving emailing graphs, etc. It's all I think from high school > level math (before calculus).
OMG that's awesome! Please, William, do everything you can to encourage him to make more Sage videos. > > Anybody who cares about Sage usability should watch that. > > The most interesting thing to me is that essentially every single > mistake he makes is due to Sage not supporting implicit > multiplication. He must have to fix or edit his input nearly 10 times > just to fix missing *'s for multiplication. Very interesting. > > I'm putting "implicit multiplication option in the notebook" on my > todo list for next month. (We have it on the command line but not in > the notebook.) > > -- William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
