Very cool - thanks for the info. A nice teaser. When is Sage 5.0 coming out :-)
On Aug 18, 8:19 pm, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:11 AM, docfleetwood<docfleetw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Well I'm glad I could help by coming up with a good idea. I've got > > lots of questions so maybe a few other ideas might pop up too :-) > > > I would love to help but I know absolutely nothing about programming. > > In fact, playing with Sage has pretty much been my introduction to > > programming. I teach high school biology and would like my kids to > > work with some more mathematics. I'm also part of a national > > biomathematics program that is trying to write curriculum for the high > > school level to get younger folks interested and ahead of the game. I > > work with a team of high school and college math and biology teachers > > and researchers. Biology is becoming such an information science! As > > part of that, I have taken it upon myself to investigate Sage for > > possible inclusion in some of our modules. The students could start > > an account and work through some preset presentations and then inquire > > and investigate on their own. I think it would be great for them and > > they would learn some programming too (much as I am now). > > In that case, you might be glad to know that Marshall Hampton is > updating Biopython as an optional package of Sage. Biopython is a > Python package for research and study in bioinformatics. Its website > is > > http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page > > and the ticket to update Biopython in Sage is > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6634 > > -- > Regards > Minh Van Nguyen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---