Please do revise and update and/or modify the Constructions document in any way you think is best!
I personally like your idea of adding optional package tutorials there as well. Note however that optional packages can become standard, so hopefully the two types of packages would not be treated too differently. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Minh Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi kcrisman, > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:14 AM, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think this might have some commonality with several other projects - >> the Sage cookbook, which wdj et al. did, and has since not (?) been >> updated much, > > I see that the Sage Constructions document [1] serves a similar > purpose to my proposal for a new "Sage HOWTOs" section. D. Joyner and > R. Miller has written a coding theory cookbook chapter [2] that hasn't > been updated for about a year now. I provided a patch for that chapter > over a year ago, but not much else has been done with that chapter > since. > > >> and the other project (Sage tutorials? something like >> that, but I can't find it on the wiki right now) which already had >> some significant content. > > Are you referring to the Sage primers from Sage Days 13 [3]? It took > me a while to locate that wiki page. I went through all the past Sage > Days workshops in order to locate that, because I faintly remember > that the wiki page of Sage primers resulted from a Sage Days workshop. > That page is now linked to from the main wiki page [4]. > > >> Perhaps all these things should be >> coordinated/merged/aware of each other. > > Yes, the Sage primers and Constructions document should be coordinated > in some way. On the Sage primers wiki page [3], I have added a note > about polishing up those primers for inclusion in the Sage > Constructions [1] document. > > In retrospect, I think there is no need for a new section called "Sage > HOWTOs" since the Sage Constructions document already serves as a > repository of howtos. But I still would like to get people's comments > about sections in the Sage Constructions document that make use of > optional packages. My preference is to allow sections making use of > optional packages, but those sections must clearly state that optional > packages be installed beforehand. > > > [1] http://www.sagemath.org/doc/constructions/ > > [2] http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3624 > > [3] http://wiki.sagemath.org/days13/projects/sagenewbie > > [4] http://wiki.sagemath.org > > -- > Regards > Minh Van Nguyen > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
