Thank you so much for these ideas. On Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 7:44:45 AM UTC-7, mathzeta2 wrote: > > On 12/07/2018 05:28, Ursula Whitcher wrote: > > On 7/11/2018 3:19 PM, prof...@gmail.com <javascript:> wrote: > >> What would be a good way for a Sage user with a basic programming > >> background to learn about Sage development and how codebases are > >> built? Projects ultimately of interest so far are (1) a > >> "show-my-steps" feature for differentiation in Sage or (2) a feature > >> for generating proofs by induction for some class of problems. Are > >> there any relevant tutorial-like things? > > > > A very good way is to attend a Sage Days. > > > > There are some tutorials in the Developers' Guide: > > > > https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/ > > > > A good first project is nearly always finding something unclear in the > > Developers' Guide and fixing it. > > > > Does "a basic programming background" include some knowledge of Python? > > If not, picking up a little bit of Python is a good place to start. > > > > --Ursula Whitcher. > > > > These are good tips. > > More concretely, for the specific project (1), have you looked into > SymPy's manualintegrate module? Quoting the docs [1]: > > "The option manual=True can be used to use only an algorithm that tries > to mimic integration by hand. This algorithm does not handle as many > integrands as the other algorithms implemented but may return results in > a more familiar form. The manualintegrate module has functions that > return the steps used (see the module docstring for more information)." > > Some examples on SymPy Gamma: > http://www.sympygamma.com/input/?i=integrate+log(x^2)#intsteps > http://www.sympygamma.com/input/?i=integrate%28x*sin%283*x%29%2C+x%29 > and the sourcecode for that can be found at > https://github.com/sympy/sympy_gamma/blob/master/app/logic/intsteps.py > > SymPy is included in Sage, and it might be nice to integrate (pardon the > pun) it better. > > Regards, > TB > > [1] http://docs.sympy.org/latest/modules/integrals/integrals.html >
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