I've just started poking around with Sage, and it looks pretty good to me. I don't see any big advantages using Mathics instead. For students I'm planning to just present them with a limited set of commands, for the topic at hand, and point them to Ted Kosan's very nice newby tutorial for more. --David Chandler
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:46 PM, michel paul <pythonic.m...@gmail.com>wrote: > Yeah, it can be slow. As they do say on the site, not necessarily > industrial strength, but could be useful for educational purposes. However, > who knows how it might be able to improve over time? > > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Dan Peirce <peirce....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It looks impressive, but at the moment on line it appears to be >> amazingly slow even for simple calculations. >> >> On 2/10/13, michel paul <pythonic.m...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > A student sent me this.: http://www.mathics.org/ >> > >> > It's Mathematica lite, for free. Though built with Python, Sage, and >> SymPy, >> > it accepts Mathematica syntax and provides much of its basic >> functionality. >> > >> > In an age where anyone can do genuinely high quality math in their >> browser >> > for free, that's what we should be showing the kids. I think things are >> > going to be heading more in that direction, not less. >> > >> > -- Michel >> > >> > =================================== >> > "What I cannot create, I do not understand." >> > >> > - Richard Feynman >> > =================================== >> > "Computer science is the new mathematics." >> > >> > - Dr. Christos Papadimitriou >> > =================================== >> > >> > > > > -- > =================================== > "What I cannot create, I do not understand." > > - Richard Feynman > =================================== > "Computer science is the new mathematics." > > - Dr. Christos Papadimitriou > =================================== > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > >
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