On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:26 PM, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > So how does it stack up as > (a) user experience?
I have some contact with others teaching MMA, and what struck me when watching the demo video in regard of UX is, that there are two major shortcomings. First, it's inconsistent. If something doesn't work out as it should, there is no clear path how to get there, because it depends heavily on what you have already done so far. That's frustrating for the teachers and also for the students. Second, functionalities are not discoverable. In Sage there is more and more a trend to group top-level functions by a topic, e.g. someone types "graphs.[TAB]" and the tab key expands a list of functions only for graphs. Additionally, once you have constructed a data structure holding the information for a concrete incarnation of a concept - AKA variable name - you can do variable.[TAB] to see operations you can do on that given instance. This struck me briefly in the MMA demo video, where the UI gave a list of common functions you can apply on the given object. (It was only limited to those functions with only one argument, though.) H -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
