I am a high school student. "SAGE Beginners Book" seems to be more about computation in general than how to use SAGE to explore mathematics and get help on math homework. I like the idea of a Google Group for discussing SAGE for high-school students. SAGE includes SymPy so a student could play around with equations in pure python from the notebook. We really need a good geometry package because finding to find various intersections and what not without understanding geometry to make cool animations and stuff in SAGE is very hard.
On 8/9/07, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William, > > This is exactly the kind of student that I had in mind in my response > to your marketing email. He is fairly good with computers but not so > good with math for various reasons and there are hundreds of thousands > of these type of students in the world. > > My opinion is that Sage definitely is appropriate for a beginner if > they are introduced to it in the right way. My Sage beginner's > tutorial has turned into a Sage Beginner's book and I think I can have > a useable version of it ready soon. > > The book takes a ground-up approach to teaching Sage ant it only > assumes that the reader understands arithmetic and some beginning > algebra as a prerequisite. Here is a link to the current version of > the book if anyone wants to take a look at it: > > http://206.21.94.60/tmp/sage_beginners_book_v.30_alpha.pdf > > I propose that a 3rd experimental Sage google group be created for CAS > beginners like this student and that the beginner's book be used as > its focus. I will volunteer to help run the group. > > Invite this student to join the group along with some other high > school students who are interested in learning Sage. These students > can then put the book through beta testing so that the bugs can be > worked out of it. > > If the beta test indicates that this approach works, make the group permanent. > > What do people think? > > Ted > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
