> > This "educators with an idea but no way to implement it" problem is > fundamental and it is one that I developed a solution for when I was > active in the Sage project. As it turns out, a side benefit of > teaching a large number of students how to program is that a > significant number of them will find they have a real talent for it > and they will want to do more of it. It is not a coincidence that > MathRider is developed with MathRider configured as an IDE (complete > with a build system, integrated source code repository access tool, > etc.) So then one a) teaches these talented students how to do > application programming and b) puts a process in place which enables > them to work with educators in order to create plugins and > plugin-based applications. This then becomes a software engineering > problem and the discipline of software engineering contains standard > methods for solving it.
Ted, In fact, this is also a (relative) selling point of Sage to me - because it does include everything you need to do it, though one does have to navigate a tree to find the document, open a text editor, etc... but for me at least that wasn't too high a barrier, since HG and all that was included, and to many students I talk to it definitely isn't a big barrier. I think you are right about students being the real growth factor in any project like Sage, MathRider, Geogebra, etc., long-term (say, 10-20 years) if they are to remain viable in that time frame. I was unusual in that I encountered Sage when I "didn't have time" for learning to program as a professional, but just made time on the math side; the GUI side is probably too much for a non-student to pick up. Good luck! - 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
