Dear Jason, dear In-Jae, On Oct 1, 6:14 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm forwarding my reply to sage-support and sage-edu, two mailing lists > that are dedicated to helping people use Sage. To others on the list: > please feel free to respond to "Why do I use Sage over (or with) other > commercial software" and how you use Sage in teaching.
I just found that the page http://www.sagemath.org/tour-education.html is rather short. Certainly there are many more ways to use Sage in education! So, I think that page needs to be worked over. Then, there are a couple of comments about "Sage in teaching" on http://www.sagemath.org/library/stories.html At the moment I am not teaching - but I think I would use Sage for it. Concerning "Why do I use Sage over other commercial software": I guess it is for two reasons. 1. Sage is free open source. Hence - I can afford it - I can look at the code, extend the code and *learn* a lot from it! For me, this often works better than reading a book. By the way, if you think that "learning by coding" is a valuable approach to teaching then you have an answer to the "Sage in teaching" question. 2. Sage has Cython. This fact became the most important point for me. Not only can I write new code (as in any other CAS), but: - Cython is a decent language. - In contrast to the custom Mathematica/Maple/Magma/... languages, Cython (since it comprises Python) is useful in a broader context. - It is compiled and supports optimization. Hence it can be very efficient code. AFAIK, writing compiled code for Mathematica/Maple/ Magma is hardly possible. Cheers Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
