Hi Nicolas, On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> wrote:
<SNIP> > To summarize, and as was previously vaguely discussed on > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel/msg/18c3926662cf5033, > we would love to aim progressively at: > > sage: sage? # quickref and short index for Sage > sage: sage.tutorial? # A short Sage tutorial + Minh's index > of thematic tutorials > > sage: sage.groups # quickref and short index about group > theory > sage: sage.groups.primer? > sage: sage.groups.tutorial? # The main group theory tutorial + > links to other group theory tutorials > > sage: sage.combinat.crystals? # quickref and short index about > crystals Overall, the above is an excellent proposal for centralizing source code and documentation (reference manual, tutorials, primers). I can imagine that I would want to do sage: sage.groups.tutorial? to get a tutorial on how to use the group theory module. Also, to do sage: sage.groups.primer? to get a primer on the group theory module. That is, inline documentation available from the command line and through the notebook interface. In case this hasn't come up before, I want to now focus on how all these tutorials and primers are to be organized in the HTML version of the standard documentation [1]. Are they to be found in the Reference Manual [2]? Or within a thematic new category such as "Sage HOWTOs" as proposed at #8470 [3]? Since you mentioned the phrase "thematic tutorials" above, I have an urge to borrow (no, steal :-) the phrase and instead rename "Sage HOWTOs" to "Thematic Tutorials". I really like that phrase of yours. > By the way, Jason: can you remind me what's the difference between > 'primer' and 'tutorial'? * primer --- a mini tutorial that should get you started, up and running in a few minutes. * tutorial --- requires about half an hour (or more) to work through. [1] http://www.sagemath.org/doc/ [2] http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/ [3] http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8470 -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-de...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en.
