[sage-edu] Re: Optics textbook illustrated with Sage codes

2017-09-06 Thread Harald Schilly
Interesting, thank you. I've made https://github.com/sagemath/publications/issues/78 to add this. On Monday, September 4, 2017 at 5:56:46 PM UTC+2, Eric Gourgoulhon wrote: > > Hi, > > This is to mention the recent publication of this geometrical optics > textbook by R. Taillet (in French) > http

Re: [sage-edu] New Sage-based textbook

2016-10-09 Thread Harald Schilly
Now I also started to look at the content, first off On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 9:30:44 AM UTC+2, john_perry_usm wrote: > > (c1) The administration expresses support for, and interest in, open > textbooks. > well, as mentioned above, open textbooks definitions usually imply that they can

Re: [sage-edu] New Sage-based textbook

2016-10-09 Thread Harald Schilly
On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 9:30:44 AM UTC+2, john_perry_usm wrote: > > (a) The tentative license is CC-BY-NC-SA, unless someone convinces us > that's a bad idea. > This is indeed a very bad idea, and even not really recommended by creative commons related people. The point is that it viol

[sage-edu] Sage part of Google's Summer of Code 2013

2013-04-08 Thread Harald Schilly
Good News, like last year Sage is once again part of Google's Summer of Code. This means, until April 22 at 19:00 UTC students can submit their applications and mentors will review them and do the matching. Please share this with prospective students or think about being a mentor this year! gsoc p

[sage-edu] Re: Sage Interact website

2012-07-13 Thread Harald Schilly
On Friday, July 13, 2012 10:41:19 PM UTC+2, jason wrote: > > Register an account > by clicking on an OpenID account provider and confirming your email > address. > Fantastic, I already saw it and now it looks really mature. Only drawback ... how do I confirm this email address?! I got no email

[sage-edu] Re: papers and talks on Sage

2011-09-27 Thread Harald Schilly
I looked briefly over them, most are just talks describing sage or comparing it to matlab. I found one paper that looks like a serious publication, though: http://www.weblearn.hs-bremen.de/risse/papers/ICIT11/526_ICIT11_Risse.pdf Minh will take care of it! greetings Harald On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 a

[sage-edu] sage goes biology

2011-09-22 Thread Harald Schilly
just want to share this: http://biol3306f11.blogspot.com/2011/09/interactive-tool-to-study-population.html pointing to http://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/3158/ http://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/3163/ http://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/3166/ H -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[sage-edu] Python Introduction Videos

2010-08-05 Thread Harald Schilly
Hello, in case anybody of you needs to pinpoint some Python newbie to an introduction course, I've posted a series of videos on the website: http://sagemath.org/help-video.html#python They start with http://youtu.be/tKTZoB2Vjuk and all the following ones in this two day course. Probably much easi

[sage-edu] Re: how to load data (from my computer) for 2d ploting?

2010-07-30 Thread Harald Schilly
On 30 Jul., 12:05, marius_darie wrote: > Im using sagenb. > how can I load data (from my computer) for 2d ploting? > 1. menu: data > upload or create > selected file "data.csv" containing in my case: """ 1,3 2,3 3,4 """ 2. read it: import csv data = list(csv.reader(file(DATA + 'data.csv'))) pri

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Collection of various interactive applications in High School level

2010-07-30 Thread Harald Schilly
The licensing worksheets ticket is http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8763 On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 07:06, Jason Grout wrote: > I would be very interested in any comments you have on any gotchas when > integrating interacts into the Sage library.  When I tried to do a few, it > seemed like

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Collection of various interactive applications in High School level

2010-07-29 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 21:29, Dana Ernst wrote: > > If someone (like me!) incorporates one of these excellent > interacts/animations (or any other one for that matter), is it sufficient to > add a comparable license to the top or bottom of the corresponding worksheet? >  Or, should the license

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Collection of various interactive applications in High School level

2010-07-29 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 19:22, kcrisman wrote: > Thanks, Harald - finally getting some of these in will be a really > great addition. Of course! Fall starts a new semester cycle and we should focus on getting Sage into shape for new customers ;) H -- You received this message because you are

[sage-edu] Re: Collection of various interactive applications in High School level

2010-07-29 Thread Harald Schilly
On 29 Jul., 18:36, Lauri Ruotsalainen wrote: > I looked into licensing (thanks for the info, Jason) and I think GNU > GPL (2.0 or newer) and CC Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 (dual)licensing > fits best for me. Excellent ;) I'm nearly finished porting them to Sage, see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage

[sage-edu] Re: Collection of various interactive applications in High School level

2010-07-28 Thread Harald Schilly
On 27 Jul., 21:46, kcrisman wrote: > In fact, even if they are not included in Sage, ... I like them, very nice work. I want to help including them in sage, as part of the currently rather empty interact library - http://hg.sagemath.org/sage-main/file/426be7b253ad/sage/interacts This is now http

[sage-edu] Re: SAGE in abstract algebra class

2010-03-09 Thread Harald Schilly
On Mar 9, 12:57 am, Mike OS wrote: >    -Reduce the number of functions that  appear on tab completion. > For a permutation >     group there are 122 completions.  Perhaps 20-40 are within the > vocabulary of an >     undergrad. I don't think that's a good idea - but I have a better one: Display

[sage-edu] Re: sage intro videos

2010-03-06 Thread Harald Schilly
thx for notifying, it's added to the video tutorial page. h On Mar 5, 10:17 pm, David Joyner wrote: > Hi: > > Jose Unpingco has just posted another of his Sage videos to > showmedo:http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/series?name=QZ0PAxn60 > > - David -- You received this message because you are

[sage-edu] Re: GR package

2010-02-05 Thread Harald Schilly
On Feb 5, 5:49 am, William Stein wrote: > Here's an example of > one of those packages: http://www.math.washington.edu/~lee/Ricci/ Look like development has stopped 2006 and you can buy a better version here: http://smc.vnet.net/mathtensor.html h -- You received this message because you are su

[sage-edu] Re: Intro to Sage

2010-02-03 Thread Harald Schilly
On Feb 3, 6:02 pm, Oscar Castillo-Felisola wrote: > I found a set of notes of elementary math using Sage in schilly's page... That's a tutorial translation from here, actually http://sagemath.org/help.html H -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-ed

[sage-edu] Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha Are Revolutionizing Education

2010-01-29 Thread Harald Schilly
"""One key theme is how educators are getting more creative in their classrooms through using interactive examples of the concepts they are teaching.""" http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/01/28/mathematica-and-wolframalpha-are-revolutionizing-education/ I'm posting this here to highlight that others ar

[sage-edu] Re: what should be taught?

2010-01-09 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jan 9, 5:22 pm, michel paul wrote: > def dot_product(row, col): return sum([r*c for (r, c) in zip(row, col)]) I was reading this and i just want to add a more advanced example for that (it's a bit faster, too): import operator def dot_product(row, col): return sum(map(operator.mul, row, col))

[sage-edu] Re: We need to base math lessons on computers

2009-12-05 Thread Harald Schilly
On Dec 4, 4:11 pm, Hector Villafuerte wrote: > Hi, > some of you might find this article by Conrad Wolfram interesting: > there is also some related material on the wolfram alpha sites http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/12/02/wolframalpha-on-campus-chicago-state-university/ and similar ... h --

[sage-edu] Sage Survey 2009

2009-11-19 Thread Harald Schilly
Hello Sage Community! Last fall I made a survey about Sage. It gave us some insight about who is using Sage, Sage's weak points and strength and also new project ideas. This year I want to repeat it. Everyone - just interested people and regular users - are invited to take it. Help us to make Sage

[sage-edu] Re: Reducing the size of SAGE install

2009-10-06 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 6, 2:08 pm, Joaquim Puig wrote: > Currently, we are trying to locally install SAGE on our computer labs, > but we have very few space left for applications. First, if you have a computer lab, you can use NFS! It's maybe a bit slower on startup, but should work quite well. The reason is, t

[sage-edu] stat218-0...@uni Canterbury/NZ

2009-09-15 Thread Harald Schilly
Hi, I found this example of using Sage in education. Especially the notebook primer might be worth looking into. Course: http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/STAT218/09/S2/C/ Notebook Primer: http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/~r.sainudiin/courses/STAT218/2009/PreSage/SageSignInAndUsing.pdf Notebook: h

[sage-edu] Re: Creating Random Student Worksheets using LaTeX and Sage

2009-08-04 Thread Harald Schilly
On Aug 4, 4:58 pm, "M.Olson" wrote: > I have a very SIMPLE example of generating random dyadic > operations ... let's use addition. ... Hi, I would tackle this entirely different. I would code the randomness +the solutions in python, part of sagetex, and just insert markers into the latex code w

[sage-edu] Re: Creating Random Student Worksheets using LaTeX and Sage

2009-08-02 Thread Harald Schilly
On 1 Aug., 16:47, "M.Olson" wrote: > I am a Sage Newbie and looking to create randomly generated exercise > worksheets (not a sage worksheet) using both LaTeX and Sage. Some months ago I had the same idea. It's pretty easy I think to code some general framework in python for this and then design

[sage-edu] Sage on Facebook

2009-04-09 Thread Harald Schilly
Hello I just want to make it official that Sage has a fan page on facebook. I'm not sure in what direction this will go, but some viral marketing shouldn't hurt Sage at all! There are already more than 200 fans after less than 2 weeks since it is online. You can post messages about Sage, post som

[sage-edu] Re: sagelet - calculus in two variables - differential

2009-03-09 Thread Harald Schilly
Hi, thx, but the correct URL is http://sagenb.org/home/pub/298/ H On Mar 8, 10:37 pm, "ma...@mendelu.cz" wrote: > Dear readers of this group, I wrote a simple sagelet which describes > approximation of a function in two variabels using differential. The > sagelet is published athttp://www.sagen

[sage-edu] Re: Where books on how teach calculus/math with computer math software?

2009-01-22 Thread Harald Schilly
Here are two wiki pages http://wiki.sagemath.org/Teaching_with_SAGE http://wiki.sagemath.org/Teaching_using_SAGE h On Jan 22, 8:36 pm, "seber...@spawar.navy.mil" wrote: > Anyone know of any place that has collected lots of wisdom on how to > effectively teach math classes with math software? >

[sage-edu] Re: Can you make @interact have a variable # of input boxes...

2009-01-22 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jan 22, 3:39 pm, Jonathan Gutow wrote: > I'm probably being dense hereBut would appreciate any suggestions/ > help. What I want to do is ask students to interactively input a > variable number of expressions based on some randomly generated > 'story' problems (actually chemical kinetic me

[sage-edu] call for success stories

2008-07-15 Thread Harald Schilly
Hi, I'm working on the Sage website. I am searching for interesting content and this time I want to ask everyone who has used Sage for his or her research or in education in class to write a short success story. It should talk about how it was used and the general and personal experience. Just so

[sage-edu] Re: sage video #2 by Jose Unpingco

2008-05-21 Thread Harald Schilly
On May 20, 7:35 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > Jose Unpingco has created his second video for SAGE. ... great! i hope it gets posted to showmedo like the first one for the sage series? h --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message becau