[sage-devel] Re: A library of wonderfully documented examples.

2008-02-17 Thread Ted Kosan
Marshall wrote: > I have a comment that is a little off-topic but perhaps relevant. > After talking to some people at the joint meetings in San Diego, and > especially after using Sage a lot in the classroom this semester, I've > been struck by the following fact: people who use Sage who are new

[sage-devel] Re: A library of wonderfully documented examples.

2008-02-17 Thread Nick Alexander
> So my suggestion is that it might be worthwhile to > mark up Sage examples for newbies so that pre-defined words such as > "for" and "in" are highlighted somehow. Are you suggesting that new programmers start with Emacs and font- lock-mode? What a good idea :) Thoroughly tongue-in-cheek, Nic

[sage-devel] Re: A library of wonderfully documented examples.

2008-02-17 Thread mhampton
Wow, that's ambitious. Thanks for all the work on that front. I have a comment that is a little off-topic but perhaps relevant. After talking to some people at the joint meetings in San Diego, and especially after using Sage a lot in the classroom this semester, I've been struck by the following