On 9/4/07, gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm drawn to the notebook interface. I've been guessing that it's > somewhat like a Mathematica notebook. If so, great ... I'm looking > for a notebook kind of thing to use with scipy (etc.). I write some > text, execute some python, draw a graph, write more text, etc. > Is sage notebook supposed to be like that?
It is like that. > If so ... I cannot figure > out how to use it. If not, then it's not the tool I'm looking for. > (And you can skip the rest of this post.) I've spent a couple of hours > over a few days trying to just write text and execute python ... > without success. > > I've downloaded the thing, can run it (Ubuntu 7.04 btw), point > firefox at it, and read the tutorials. > (BTW ... how does one execute the commands in the examples? Put the > cursor where? and press execute? Usually clicking execute results in > a little wheel-icon that spins and spins and I eventually get a time- > out error. I cannot find basic instructions on how to do things like > that.) Put the cursor on an input cell and press shift-enter, exactly like in Mathematica. If this doesn't work (after say 10 seconds), then there is a serious problem with your install. > Can someone give me a "hello, world" description of how to do this: > > <psuedo-notebook-session> > This is a sage note book. Here's how to set a variable > > >>> a=1 > > Now we'll print the variable > > >>> print a > 1 > > There! It works! > </psuedo-notebook-session> > > Thanks, > gary. > > PS, You might consider starting your tutorial with something like > this rather than a discussion of rings of rational numbers. And > instructions on how to operate the tutorial. > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://www.williamstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
