On Oct 21, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote:
> > Hi, > > Thanks for your answers. I think also that starting simple and small > is > a way to increase the use of Sage also. My questions about interface > and > language because I'm trying to use CAS in education with notebooks > with > a textual oriented interface instead of notebooks with a calculation > oriented one. This is because I want to emphasize problem solving > using > the heuristics of George Polya, so textual description of the students > interpretation of the problem is more important that calculations. In > this regard the notebook web interface has some issues and the > integration of tinyMCE is a good step on user friendliness but > there is > a escape of the WYSIWYG metaphor to LaTeX code when there is a need to > write math (and of course in a problem solving oriented math course is > supposed to pass a lot). A work around that I'm using is the TeXmacs > interface for Sage, but then I lose all the nice collaborative and > ubiquitous features of the sage web interface. Having a nice equation > editor integrated with tinyMCE (may be made in something similar to > 280slides) would be a good step towards a textual oriented > interface. Of > course you're thinking supercalculator integrated in a small form > factor > laptop, but also you're thinking about filling the gaps so knowing > your > thoughts about the gap between textual oriented and calculation > oriented > interface would be a nice thing, even if this is not planed for > mathrider. Note that it would be (relatively) easy to take the sage notebook and make it evaluate cells via a custom, simpler, interpreter (that could call Sage underneath). - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
