On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:32 PM, root <d...@axiom-developer.org> wrote: > > I've just returned from the NSF conference. > > There was a big push for teaching, especially related to CAS. I suggested > a joint effort with the game industry. The idea would be to use a game > like the bridge building game (www.bridgebuilder-game.com) and a CAS. > > The idea of the bridge game is to construct a bridge and then apply a > load until it fails. Students could start building a simple model of > the bridge by attaching matrices to the ends of the beam elements. > Then they would predict the force to destroy the bridge and > be measured on how close their model is to the actual result. The next > class could add stress or strain or young's modulus or gravity load, > etc. At the end of 13 weeks, the grades are given by the final > ranking kept by the game program. > > The point of the exercise is to develop the skills to construct models > using a CAS. > > This seems like a "python-can-do-it" kind of project. > The NSF person at the conference liked the idea a lot.
Thanks for the update. In fact, with my colleagues we were looking for some kind of a game for our finite elements (FEM) programs, and building a bridge was one of the ideas we got. I didn't know someone has already implemented it, even though they don't seem to be using FEM. Too bad I am just too busy to write any games, but it'd be cool. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
