[sage-edu] Re: SageNB -> Jupyter conversion needs testers

2017-04-17 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Perhaps it's a good idea to provide a prompt at this point, something like "Launch the browser? (yes/no)" On Sunday, April 16, 2017 at 3:11:08 PM UTC+1, Volker Braun wrote: > > The token is a security measure so no other (local) user can run arbitrary > code in your notebook. It is printed duri

[sage-edu] Re: SageNB -> Jupyter conversion needs testers

2017-04-11 Thread Dima Pasechnik
anyhow, this process, clicking on these old notebooks, does provide copies of converted to ipython sagenb notebooks, but the whole process is very stressful at the moment, I think. This popup with password prompt really should not be there... On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 9:44:03 PM UTC+1, Dima

[sage-edu] Re: Coming SageMathCell upgrade - please test!

2016-04-18 Thread Dima Pasechnik
works on firefox, but does not give a window to evaluate on Chrome, 49.0.2623.87 (64-bit) (both browsers the same machine, on Ubuntu 14.04) On Monday, April 18, 2016 at 1:29:49 AM UTC+1, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: > > Hello and sorry for cross-posting, I'm trying to maximize visibility. > > After

[sage-edu] building Software Carpentry "lesson" for Sagemath

2016-01-22 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Software Carpentry, see http://software-carpentry.org, is a charity that does "Teaching basic lab skills for research computing". But goes beyond that; their workshops can include more nontrivial components, e.g. recently GAP people conducted such an introductory GAP workshop: https://kkwakwa.gi

[sage-edu] Re: Article with beautiful math and pictures by SageMath in Notices

2015-12-11 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Friday, 11 December 2015 14:09:03 UTC, kcrisman wrote: > > http://www.ams.org/notices/201511/rnoti-p1350.pdf > > Especially thanks to Robert Bradshaw for first introducing this in > http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/5606 ! > > (Harald, can you add this book review to the references? It cites b

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-08-02 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Saturday, 1 August 2015 21:23:44 UTC+1, Rob Beezer wrote: > > > > On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 2:05:07 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > >> Perhaps they should rather generate your XML? (beezertex filename ;-)) >> No, seriously... >> > > Yes, seriously

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-08-01 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Saturday, 1 August 2015 10:45:16 UTC+1, Volker Braun wrote: > > On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 4:14:33 AM UTC+2, Rob Beezer wrote: >> >> Seems only tex can understand TeX. ;-) >> > > Tex it a Turing-complete language, XML is not. Hence only TeX can > understand TeX, > Rather, "Wahr sind

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-08-01 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Saturday, 1 August 2015 03:14:33 UTC+1, Rob Beezer wrote: > > On 07/31/2015 05:25 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > And if it is so easy to convert LaTeX into HTML, why hasn't anybody > done it > > successfully? tex4ht is the only one I know tha

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-07-31 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Saturday, 1 August 2015 01:03:25 UTC+1, Rob Beezer wrote: > > > > On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 4:06:01 PM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> You don't need a closing tag that can be inserted by software, >> as certainly is the case for \section or \item.. &

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-07-31 Thread Dima Pasechnik
to > explicitly indicate where the section ends. In MBX, you have > to supply the . > > MBX was designed to be written by human authors. Take a look > at the source of Judson's book! > > On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > > > >

[sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-07-31 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Friday, 31 July 2015 02:17:27 UTC+1, Rob Beezer wrote: > > On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 12:59:54 PM UTC-7, parisse wrote: >> >> I had a quick look, but I'm still a little bit confused how the source >> are written. Do you write your source files in xml or have you some kind of >> converter

[sage-edu] Re: "Sage for Undergraduates" is released.

2014-07-22 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2014-07-22, Mike Meredith wrote: > Link is broken. No files black and white or color. works for me (you need to unzip the files though.) By the way, I don't see why this zip is needed; the saving of space is pretty minimal: $ ls -l *.zip -rw-r--r--@ 1 dima staff 2751932 Jul 22 10:17 sage_fo

[sage-edu] Sage-based course for about 120 students

2011-08-06 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Here at NTU we'll start next week a semester-long course Experimental Maths, for our 2nd year majors. It's going to be lab-based, with 120 people (should I say "w00t" here?) sitting at the same time for labs (in 2 large computer labs with thin clients). We'll be running two (or even four) multi