[sage-edu] Re: MAA panel session on "Free and low-cost software and textbooks for the classroom"

2009-11-16 Thread David Joyner
I was told that there is the Judson book on abstract algebra http://abstract.ups.edu/sage-aata.html, the Hefferon book on linear algebrahttp://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/, and a book that a colleague is still working on that he did not give details on (though he did say it was not in print yet

[sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-16 Thread Edgar Jasso
Getting back to what kcrisman wrote, I had my own experience in my first approach to a 4-year school (UW) for the transferability of a class we are (were?) planning to develop (I teach at a Community College). Their point was that the Engineering School at this university *requires* matlab on DAY

[sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-16 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > kcrisman wrote: >> >> >> On Nov 16, 9:35 am, calcp...@aol.com wrote: >>> Well, if MATLAB is the issue, you can install Octave and still use a >>> SAGE notebook! >>> >> >> You'd think so, wouldn't you?  But I've been assured by our >> enginee

[sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-16 Thread Jason Grout
kcrisman wrote: > > > On Nov 16, 9:35 am, calcp...@aol.com wrote: >> Well, if MATLAB is the issue, you can install Octave and still use a >> SAGE notebook! >> > > You'd think so, wouldn't you? But I've been assured by our > engineering head that there are enough syntax differences (however > m

[sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-16 Thread kcrisman
On Nov 16, 9:35 am, calcp...@aol.com wrote: > Well, if MATLAB is the issue, you can install Octave and still use a > SAGE notebook! > You'd think so, wouldn't you? But I've been assured by our engineering head that there are enough syntax differences (however minor) and the issue of many, many

[sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-16 Thread calcpage
Well, if MATLAB is the issue, you can install Octave and still use a SAGE notebook! HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College --~--~-~--~~~-

[sage-edu] Re: Jmol in web pages

2009-11-16 Thread Jonathan
I'm approaching this from the perspective of making the adjustment purely on the user machine. The idea is that the live graphic is only useful with someone interacting with them and we cannot predict what size screen people will be working with. The approach I'm playing with now is to default t

[sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-16 Thread kcrisman
Hi Colin, I just want to emphasize what the others said in terms of making it easy for students with a local Sage server. Be sure not to have them all using it simultaneously in one class, though! But if you allocate enough GB to memory, it should be able to handle a reasonable class, or many m

[sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-16 Thread mhampton
As David Joyner mentioned, I think its important to set up a server locally so that students don't have to install Sage themselves. Sagenb is under pretty heavy load these days, so a local server can be faster and perhaps more reliable (you can always use sagenb as a backup). I'm not sure how to