Dear all,
> I'm looking for success stories from people who have used Sage in
> their undergraduate teaching, particularly at the lower years.
>
> Also, any advice in convincing one's peers and institution that Sage
> is an appropriate path to take? In particular, in switching away from
> a proprietary product.
>
> My department is moving away from Maple as a component in our first
> year teaching, and I may be in a position to influence what we start
> using next September. I haven't looked over the ciriculum of the
> current course but it might include calculus, linear algebra,
> differential equations and various pure maths.
>
In my French class I must use maple for tests... But I can use an other
system for few exercices and my students could use an other system, for
nicer plot or better mathematics.
A colleague uses alive system on an usb keys or a cdrom when there isn't
the right program on the computer in his classroom. A sage for ubuntu
may be useful.
The other PC are 2 or 3 old year PC with windows xp. One time the
install is done, we don't change any program, it takes time to update 40 PC.
This year I don't promote Sage in my school because I don't know it
enough, and I can't do the standard exercices I make with maple. I learn
! I'll see next year...
I'm not sure that other teachers will quickly change from maple to sage
for their own calculus because today I see 4 mains difference between
maple and sage :
1/ Syntax object.method, mathematics writes function(object)
2/ Sage forces to declare symbolic variables, Maple not
3/ Object in Sage are finest than Maple way as 0*aMatrix
4/ The sage lists aren't the usual lisp-list
5/ Some "basis" mathematics are missing in sage. [I don't yet have the
complete list]
The 2 first points are the most important.
Computer|Sage|Python players don't imagine how some people dislike to
change their own use of any system.
A initial input file with a more or less maple syntax may help a lot.
var('a b c d f g h j k l m n o p q r s t u v w')
def rhs (eq) : eq.rhs() # and about 10 or 20 mains functions
The last point isn't a problem because a fine use of list means that the
user like computer science. The other uses of lists don't separate
sage-list and lisp-list. And maple-lists aren't so clear.
Francois
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
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
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
