Yeah, Sage is wonderful. The only problems I've experienced with it: - you can't rely on the public servers as frequently they will go down, and - having a bunch of students use them in a lab can create a bottleneck where everything is being seen as one IP. To use Sage effectively with a group you need to create your own Sage server.
I don't see Mathics replacing Sage, but it's fun seeing it come into play. Students who might want to become familiar with Mathematica but don't have access to it now have a great resource. - Michel On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:53 PM, David Chandler < da...@mathwithoutborders.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> > -- =================================== "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
