[sage-edu] How do your students "Turn in" Sage assignments?

2011-11-03 Thread Brad Burkman
Dear Sage-edu Members, I occasionally give my high-school students assignments in Sage, but have not found an effective way to track whether they're doing the work. Please share your thoughts. My assignments complement the work in their textbooks. I publish a worksheet that the students edit.

Re: [sage-edu] How do your students "Turn in" Sage assignments?

2011-11-03 Thread Jason Grout
On 11/3/11 2:15 PM, Brad Burkman wrote: Another is to have each student "Share" with me his/her modified copy of my published worksheet. This solution would fill my Notebook with fifty worksheets for each assignment, and the Notebook doesn't have sophisticated sorting mechanisms. I do this, bu

Re: [sage-edu] How do your students "Turn in" Sage assignments?

2011-11-03 Thread michel paul
OK, perfect timing! Thanks for posting this. I've been wondering about doing exactly the same sort of thing, but I keep running into a problem. I've been experimenting with this on the Alpha server, and I can't get the shared notebook file to appear in the class account. I pretended to be a studen

Re: [sage-edu] sequences

2011-11-03 Thread michel paul
You could use *n for your parameter. It allows you to enter an arbitrary number of arguments: def a(*n): return [1/k^2 for k in n] a(2,4,6) ---> [1/4,1/16,1/36] a(5) ---> [1/25] Not exactly what you were wanting, but pretty close. But - why *not* just go ahead and define a(n) for the nth term

Re: [sage-edu] sequences

2011-11-03 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
michel paul wrote: You could use *n for your parameter. It allows you to enter an arbitrary number of arguments: def a(*n): return [1/k^2 for k in n] a(2,4,6) ---> [1/4,1/16,1/36] a(5) ---> [1/25] Not exactly what you were wanting, but pretty close. But - why not just go ahead and define

Re: [sage-edu] How do your students "Turn in" Sage assignments?

2011-11-03 Thread Jason Grout
On 11/3/11 6:13 PM, michel paul wrote: OK, perfect timing! Thanks for posting this. I've been wondering about doing exactly the same sort of thing, but I keep running into a problem. I've been experimenting with this on the Alpha server, and I can't get the shared notebook file to appear in the

[sage-edu] Re: How do your students "Turn in" Sage assignments?

2011-11-03 Thread kcrisman
On Nov 3, 7:13 pm, michel paul wrote: > OK, perfect timing! Thanks for posting this. I've been wondering about > doing exactly the same sort of thing, but I keep running into a problem. > > I've been experimenting with this on the Alpha server, and I can't get the > shared notebook file to appea