Hi Edward,
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:22, Kalpa Welivitigoda <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda from Sri Lanka and I'm reading for my >> degree in Electrical Engineering. I love maths and maths is highly >> used in my studies and I though to join this project and share my >> knowledge. > > Welcome. > >> For the moment, I am contributing to Sugar in lokalization and in >> packaging sugar activities for Fedora. > > Excellent. I have a possible project for your consideration, to turn > Ken iverson's final version of his APL programming language into a > Sugar activity and also to package it for Fedora. Iverson taught > primary school arithmetic once using a loaned IBM 360 with Selectric > printing terminals, and wrote textbooks on Arithmetic, Algebra, and > Analysis. Here is a little bit of Arithmetic. > > 2+3 > 5 > i. 3 > 0 1 2 > 1+a =. i.3 > 1 2 3 > a+/a > 0 1 2 > 1 2 3 > 2 3 4 > > and so on, with builtin functions for polynomials, permutations, > solving systems of linear equations, trig, hyperbolic, exponential, > hypergeometric functions, a derivative operator, and much more. > Command-line, Web, and GTK versions are provided. > > The language, now called J, was recently put under GPL3, and the > textbooks under Creative Commons-BY-SA. I have started to enter the > algebra book on the Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks server. > > Links: > > http://jsoftware.com/ > > J downloads, docs, mailing lists > > http://booki.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/_edit/ > As it says > > http://booki.treehouse.su/algebra-an-algorithmic-treatment/ > > I will create a J version of all of the Math4Team content. > >> So if there's any way I can contribute to Math4Team I highly appreciate. > > Likewise. > Thanks a lot for your detailed reply. I spent my leisure these days to complete Sinhala lokalization in Sugar, as it is about to freeze for the next release. So I'll look into your links and see what I can do there after the lokalization is over. >> Thanks in advance >> >> -- >> Best Regards, >> >> Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda >> http://about.me/callkalpa >> _______________________________________________ >> FourthGradeMath mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath >> > > > > -- > Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin > Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks > -- Best Regards, Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda http://about.me/callkalpa _______________________________________________ FourthGradeMath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath
