On Friday, October 25, 2013 9:54:38 AM UTC-4, john_perry_usm wrote: > > Hello > > How do you use some version of Sage in a class? >> > >
I definitely have done the one-off interacts in the Sage cell for classes. This worked very well for giving "interactive" problems to introduce new concepts before class - I typically have students do a short response to reading or something else related before every class. I've done this in a wide variety of classes. Also, in-class demos are very good to do, to change on the fly, and Sage is just as capable of this as any other system through the notebook interface. On the other end, my entire number theory class lives in Sage cell-enabled + MathJax webpages. I prototyped these in the notebook. I think that the notebook worksheets are very useful for independent labs that are introduced in class that students then work through. For unrelated curricular reasons I don't do these any more, but obviously this is a standard technique. I'll note that these answers are quite different than when people have asked the same question a few years ago, because the cloud (not just SageMathCloud) but general ease of instant computing like Sage cell has gotten easier to use. One thing to note is the load on traditional notebook servers; you need a fair amount of RAM in your virtual machine or wherever you set it up. This is fairly well documented nowadays in a few places. So it means that for a "lab" class you may still want separate Sage installations on each computer; the Mac app now supports double-clicking sws files, which presumably helps a lot with this, though I haven't used this because we don't/can't really have in-class labs here. Anyway, hopefully they can better envision how it might get used! Basically the same way you use any other such system, except plus the cell server and the cloud as great options :-) - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
