[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-22 Thread CalcPage
Oh, and some python too! HTH, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College **A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy s

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-22 Thread CalcPage
In a message dated 1/21/2009 9:57:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, wdjoy...@gmail.com writes: I posted a new version which I think takes all your comments into account. http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/calc1-sage/an-invitation-to- sage.pdf Thanks again. Great timing! I'm d

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-21 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:57 PM, john_perry_usm wrote: > > Hi, > >> You teach at West Point? > > I teach at USM (Southern Mississippi). Completely different part of > the country, but you have a point: they care about price, too. Maybe > more so; the local paper has been running a series of arti

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-20 Thread john_perry_usm
Hi, > You teach at West Point? I teach at USM (Southern Mississippi). Completely different part of the country, but you have a point: they care about price, too. Maybe more so; the local paper has been running a series of articles exposing tricks the textbook publishers use to gouge ever more mo

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-20 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:36 AM, john_perry_usm wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a "calculus with computers" course. The biggest suggestion I > have is from the student's point of view--most students I've known > don't care whether a package is open source vs. whether it's closed. > They do like the fre

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-20 Thread john_perry_usm
Hi, I have a "calculus with computers" course. The biggest suggestion I have is from the student's point of view--most students I've known don't care whether a package is open source vs. whether it's closed. They do like the free aspect, but what they care about most of all is, "How do I use this

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-19 Thread Skylar
> I posted a draft of a hopefully motivating and low-level paper > athttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/calc1-sage/an-invit... I think it is nice, but it is easy to get me fired-up about open- source in academics. I really like the science vs. witchcraft quote too. sos --~--~---

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-18 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Oh, that reminds me, I was looking at http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref and found a command "lprint" that's supposed to work like jsmath() but http://www.sagenb.org does not recognize it. Is is deprecated? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor A

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-18 Thread CalcPage
Well, it should read a,b,c,d,x,y=var(a,b,c,d,x,y) show(solve(a*x^2+b*x+c==0,x)) show(solve(a*x^3+b*x+c==0,x)) solve(a*x+b*y==0,c*x+d*y==0,x,y) HTH, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior H

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-18 Thread David Joyner
Actually, that screenshot is probably so old it should be redone anyway, so I'll use your code to do that. Thanks.! On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:14 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > > I got the "pretty print" to work with the show() command. In the > document cited above, the example with pretty print

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-18 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Never mind, I forgot the a,b,c,d,x,y=var(a,b,c,x,y) I'm still not clear when I need this var() command and when I don't Regards, A. Jorge Garcia mailto:calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you a

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-18 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
I got the "pretty print" to work with the show() command. In the document cited above, the example with pretty print was something like show(solve(a*x^2+b*x+c==0,x)) show(solve(a*x^3+b*x+c==0,x)) solve(a*x+b*y==0,c*x+d*y==0,x,y) I tried these and could not get the same results Regards, A.

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-18 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:15 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > > On Jan 17, 7:57 pm, David Joyner wrote: >> Thanks for the quote (which I added) and the comment. >> >> Yes, I "borroewed" lines form your talks and Harald's talk and from >> our Notices letter. It needs more details relavant to a young ma

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-17 Thread kcrisman
On Jan 17, 7:57 pm, David Joyner wrote: > Thanks for the quote (which I added) and the comment. > > Yes, I "borroewed" lines form your talks and Harald's talk and from > our Notices letter. It needs more details relavant to a young math student, > but I'll keep working on it. > > I plan on even

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-17 Thread jason-sage
David Joyner wrote: > I think if you have jsmath installed then you can display output as latex > in the notebook. > For those that don't know--- The jsmath package David refers to is a javascript package that is included in Sage--no extra installation needed. To see nice typeset output, f

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-17 Thread David Joyner
I think if you have jsmath installed then you can display output as latex in the notebook. On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:16 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > > I saw in this document a sample notebook() page that looked like latex > output. How is that done? > > TIA, > A. Jorge Garcia > calcp...@aol.co

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-17 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
I saw in this document a sample notebook() page that looked like latex output. How is that done? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage,tripod.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-17 Thread David Joyner
Thanks for the quote (which I added) and the comment. Yes, I "borroewed" lines form your talks and Harald's talk and from our Notices letter. It needs more details relavant to a young math student, but I'll keep working on it. I plan on eventually posting it somewhere with "The Sage group" as au

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-17 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > Hi: > > I posted a draft of a hopefully motivating and low-level paper at > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/calc1-sage/an-invitation-to-sage.pdf > It is designed to fit into a book on calculus with Sage, as a > introductor

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-17 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > Hi: > > I posted a draft of a hopefully motivating and low-level paper at > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/calc1-sage/an-invitation-to-sage.pdf > It is designed to fit into a book on calculus with Sage, as a > introductor