I see that sage is very rich, and I have a lot to learn, but one thing has got be stuck right off the bat.
I'm drawn to the notebook interface. I've been guessing that it's somewhat like a Mathematica notebook. If so, great ... I'm looking for a notebook kind of thing to use with scipy (etc.). I write some text, execute some python, draw a graph, write more text, etc. Is sage notebook supposed to be like that? If so ... I cannot figure out how to use it. If not, then it's not the tool I'm looking for. (And you can skip the rest of this post.) I've spent a couple of hours over a few days trying to just write text and execute python ... without success. I've downloaded the thing, can run it (Ubuntu 7.04 btw), point firefox at it, and read the tutorials. (BTW ... how does one execute the commands in the examples? Put the cursor where? and press execute? Usually clicking execute results in a little wheel-icon that spins and spins and I eventually get a time- out error. I cannot find basic instructions on how to do things like that.) Can someone give me a "hello, world" description of how to do this: <psuedo-notebook-session> This is a sage note book. Here's how to set a variable >>> a=1 Now we'll print the variable >>> print a 1 There! It works! </psuedo-notebook-session> Thanks, gary. PS, You might consider starting your tutorial with something like this rather than a discussion of rings of rational numbers. And instructions on how to operate the tutorial. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
