As part of the "Sage Programming For Newbies" I am writing, I put together the following list of Sage functions that I thought newbies would find useful:
http://206.21.94.60/tmp/functions_with_descriptions.txt As I compiled this list of functions, it occurred to me that it would be nice to have them organized by category in addition to having them listed in alphabetical order. As a first step towards creating a Sage documentation categorization scheme, I started with the "Areas of Mathematics" page on wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areas_of_mathematics ) and transformed it into the following package-like format: http://206.21.94.60/tmp/math_categories.txt What is coming to mind is to use categories in this format as tags that can be added to the Sage documentation. Another kind of tag I think would be useful is one that states whether something is at the Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced level. I spent hours manually scanning through the Sage documentation in order to extract the above list of functions. If a documentation tagging system were in place, however, I think I could have written a program that would have extracted these functions automatically. Having presented the idea of categorizing Sage's documentation by using tags, I have the following 2 questions: 1) What do people think of this idea? 2) What would the Trigonometry tag look like if it were added to the math_categories.txt file? Thanks, 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
