Le 30/10/2010 12:39, Rob Beezer a écrit :
> There's already a nice CC-licensed book about Sage written in French:http://sagebook.gforge.inria.fr/ Are there any plans to make a print version and/or translations?I have "translated" the French Sage book into Sage worksheets. This was all very experimental and a bit "quick and dirty" in places (ie I probably introduced some errors). Out of respect for the original authors' work I have not distributed this version widely. But I do intend to return to the project and do the format conversion properly, and with more input and involvement from the authors. But having spent four or five days with the source for the book, and with the caveat that my abilities with French are not the greatest, it is definitely the best resource out there for a beginner right now (IMHO).
Thanks (I am one of 10) :-)
Actually, for the chapter I wrote, programing the examples took a lot of my time, may be half of it. I am not sure that translating is very complicated: even if you know spanish for example, but not french, with the help of a dictionary, it should be possible. It tooks us about 5 months to write the book, each author correcting at least one other author; ok, it was not a full time job, but.... And we have some nice material to help us : a svn server, Makefiles, scripts and so on, so that "compiling" the book also tests the examples. I do not know what Paul Zimmerman would say, but this material (Makefile, scripts...) should be available to any translator.If I understand right, Paul Zimmerman organized about 10 authors to each write a chapter about using Sage in their specialty. It is a model that could be repeated in any language, or perhaps a translation of the French work could be translated by a similar team of knowledgeable Sage mathematicians.
Yours t.d.
Rob
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