Hi, I skimmed the crypto tutorial and liked it. I really wish we had a bunch of domain-specific tutorials gathered together and included in a single book or directory with Sage, and on the website. I wrote one recently for algebraic number fields. These tutorials would mostly -- like yours and mine -- assume the reader is new to Sage.
+1 William On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Minh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Minh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Harald, >> >> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Harald Schilly >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, I want to propose a process to increase the quality of the Sage >>> documentation. This is the by far most annoying thing about Sage >>> according to the last survey. I think the userbase is already big and >>> willing enough to contribute more documentation. To do this in a more >>> coordinated way, there should be some sort of process and guidelines. >> [...] >>> Therefore, I hope, some folks are interested to start and once there >>> is already something online, more and more should come. >>> >>> ideas, thoughts, comments? H >> >> Incidentally, this is what I'm currently doing for PARI/GP at my blog. >> I agree with you that there's a need for "short tutorials" on getting >> (new) users familiar with Sage, or at least a (small) subset of its >> features that are useful for what they want to do. I'm in the process >> of writing a short tutorial on using Sage to learn cryptography, >> specifically the shift (or Caesar) cipher. I'll keep you updated on >> this tutorial in the next few weeks. > > It has taken me longer than I expected, but here it is: > > http://nguyenminh2.googlepages.com/sage_numtheory-crypto.pdf > > This is a short tutorial on using Sage to study elementary number > theory and the RSA public key cryptosystem. By "short", I mean at most > 10 pages. If anyone has write privileges on the www.sagemath.org > server, you're welcome to put the above PDF document there or > somewhere where folks can access them. Hope (new) users find the > tutorial helpful in getting themselves familiar with Sage. > > -- > Regards > Minh Van Nguyen > > Web: http://nguyenminh2.googlepages.com > Blog: http://mvngu.wordpress.com > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
