I'm a high school math teacher and I've used python in the past to teach students about matrix operations, fractals, and basic programming concepts. Right now I'm working on a group of programs that do various probability simulations for use in probability courses at the high school and college levels.
I like the SAGE preprocessor (^ instead of **, 5/6 != 0, etc.) and would like to use SAGE functionality (especially matrices!) but I find the Notebook interface tedious. In the past I've used IDLE with students, I'd like to use DrPython in the future but the only way I know to run a SAGE program is to cut and paste into the Notebook. I'm worried that students will find the notebook interface more/too difficult than IDLE because it lacks text-highlighting, auto-indent, collapsible code blocks, robust find-replace, etc... Is there an easy/existing way to extend an IDE to support SAGE, both the preprocessor (in a shell environment?) and the functionality in stand-alone programs? Where/how do more experienced SAGE users do their coding? Thanks, Erik --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
