[sage-edu] Re: Sage academic setup experiences.

2008-12-05 Thread jan . groenewald
Hi Marhsall et al., On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:40:07AM -0800, mhampton wrote: > Having taught several classes using Sage, I highly recommend setting > up a server (or possibly more than one if you have a lot of > students). I tried setting up one sage instance per machine in a lab > with macs, a

[sage-edu] Re: slightly off-topic: sage coloring book

2008-12-05 Thread mhampton
I am working on an edition with complete sage code for the figures. Unfortunately, this project started almost as a joke and I wasn't very organized about it at first, so it will take me a while to organize the code. Since its a low priority project for me even now, I am not sure how long it wil

[sage-edu] Re: slightly off-topic: sage coloring book

2008-12-05 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:00 AM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am working on an edition with complete sage code for the figures. > Unfortunately, this project started almost as a joke and I wasn't very > organized about it at first, so it will take me a while to organize > the code. S

[sage-edu] Re: slightly off-topic: sage coloring book

2008-12-05 Thread Alex Clemesha
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:13 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been working on a mathematical coloring book, with the pictures > created using Sage. It still needs some work but I've put a > preliminary version up at lulu.com: > > http://www.lulu.com/content/4858716 > > I am not maki

[sage-edu] Re: slightly off-topic: sage coloring book

2008-12-05 Thread kcrisman
This is great. Actually, you probably COULD make some money off this, based on what I see for sale at children's museums. I've already printed it out - my daughter loves to color, she might get this in her stocking. - kcrisman --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

[sage-edu] Re: Sage academic setup experiences.

2008-12-05 Thread kcrisman
> I agree with this in your setting, but would like to give a parallel > view in 1) the low-bandwidth and resource-starved developing world, > and 2) certain class environments, e.g. ours where the students live-in, > have no laptops, bandwidth. > Then SAGE is not a 'viable alternative', it's al

[sage-edu] Re: slightly off-topic: sage coloring book

2008-12-05 Thread mhampton
Its been funny for me to think about the money aspect - not that I would expect to make much even in wildly best-case scenarios. I talked to my four-year-old daughter about it and she was appalled that I would sell it at cost, which I thought was funny and interesting, and it has made me reconsid

[sage-edu] Re: slightly off-topic: sage coloring book

2008-12-05 Thread mhampton
There's a nice Koch snowflake program in python on Wikipedia which is cool because it makes a little LOGO-like turtle actually draw the curve. I have a slight modification that I use occaisonally to illustrate non-rectifiable curves: {{{ import turtle def draw_koch(n, track_length=False): '

[sage-edu] Re: Other things which could be included for Sage

2008-12-05 Thread mhampton
I'm just forwarding this to sage-edu because I think that's really where the discussion belongs (although there is some overlap). I would be interested in discussing this at the joint meetings as well. -Marshall On Dec 5, 11:42 am, kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a related note, for th

[sage-edu] Re: slightly off-topic: sage coloring book

2008-12-05 Thread mhampton
Feel free to add it to wiki. Any code I post I consider "freed", which I know is not legally precise. Consider any post by me to sage- * licensed as creative commons, attribution share-alike. Cheers, Marshall On Dec 5, 5:11 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I fiddled with your Si

[sage-edu] Re: slightly off-topic: sage coloring book

2008-12-05 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:01 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Feel free to add it to wiki. Any code I post I consider "freed", > which I know is not legally precise. Consider any post by me to sage- > * licensed as creative commons, attribution share-alike. Thanks. It's added to the b