Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-16 Thread Tom Boothby
I just wrote a worksheet that I'd be willing to share in this manner (and release to public domain, cc, etc).  I'll have to add some documentation, but other than that, it's ready to go. Money where my mouth is: http://sagenb.org/home/pub/2365/ -- To post to this group, send an email to

[sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-16 Thread mmarco
On 14 ago, 00:59, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: IMHO, if a user sets up a Sage server, he should have 20 or 30 decent examples installed for him to look at. He may never chose to even make that server public. But some decent examples would still be useful. I think there

[sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-16 Thread mda_
On Aug 16, 12:39 am, Tom Boothby tomas.boot...@gmail.com wrote: I just wrote a worksheet that I'd be willing to share in this manner (and release to public domain, cc, etc).  I'll have to add some documentation, but other than that, it's ready to go. Money where my mouth is:

[sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-16 Thread mda_
On Aug 16, 12:39 am, Tom Boothby tomas.boot...@gmail.com wrote: I just wrote a worksheet that I'd be willing to share in this manner (and release to public domain, cc, etc).  I'll have to add some documentation, but other than that, it's ready to go. Money where my mouth is:

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-16 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/16/10 08:39 AM, Tom Boothby wrote: I just wrote a worksheet that I'd be willing to share in this manner (and release to public domain, cc, etc). I'll have to add some documentation, but other than that, it's ready to go. Money where my mouth is: http://sagenb.org/home/pub/2365/ I

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-16 Thread Tom Boothby
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:25 AM, mda_ donmorri...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 16, 12:39 am, Tom Boothby tomas.boot...@gmail.com wrote: I just wrote a worksheet that I'd be willing to share in this manner (and release to public domain, cc, etc).  I'll have to add some documentation, but other

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-16 Thread Tom Boothby
I see two issues. 1) The writing on the boxes overlaps http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/layout.png Yeah, it's hard to get matplotlib to render text how you want it. I'll play with this some, and see if I can't fix it. OTOH, I'm in the middle of packing, so I can't promise that

[sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-16 Thread mhampton
Get it right, man: the correct past tense verb form is malamanteaued. On Aug 16, 5:15 pm, Tom Boothby tomas.boot...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent!  Ever since Bush Jr.'s regime started, I've been a huge fan of inventoring words.  I do it quite intentionally.  I was going to return square footage.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-16 Thread Tom Boothby
I was tempted to use malamantoad... On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:23 PM, mhampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: Get it right, man: the correct past tense verb form is malamanteaued. On Aug 16, 5:15 pm, Tom Boothby tomas.boot...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent!  Ever since Bush Jr.'s regime started, I've

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-15 Thread Tom Boothby
IMHO, if a user sets up a Sage server, he should have 20 or 30 decent examples installed for him to look at. He may never chose to even make that server public. But some decent examples would still be useful. I think there are enough decent examples around - they just need collecting in one

[sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-13 Thread mmarco
I think the current design fits perfectly for a classroom server, but maybe its true that the public notebook server gets too much garbage. The rating system should be a solution for this, but clearly, doesn't work. Maybe just a regular garbage collecting could be usefull. But then again, we need

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-13 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:18 AM, mmarco mma...@unizar.es wrote: I think the current design fits perfectly for a classroom server, but maybe its true that the public notebook server gets too much garbage. The rating system should be a solution for this, but clearly, doesn't work. The published

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/13/10 11:11 PM, William Stein wrote: A moderation system / crowdsourcing is obviously the way to go to select good worksheets. It's just a matter of implementing it in a more usable way, and presenting the results by default at /pub. --- William IMHO, if a user sets up a Sage

[sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-12 Thread Jason Grout
On 7/24/10 2:24 AM, David Kirkby wrote: Perhaps changing Rate this to Please rate this might increase the percentage of people that rate worksheets. Clearly there is not much interest in rating them now. Asking people to decide which of 1-5 to rate the worksheet might also be asking too much

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/12/10 09:00 AM, Jason Grout wrote: On 7/24/10 2:24 AM, David Kirkby wrote: Perhaps changing Rate this to Please rate this might increase the percentage of people that rate worksheets. Clearly there is not much interest in rating them now. Asking people to decide which of 1-5 to rate

[sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-12 Thread Jason Grout
On 8/12/10 1:29 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 08/12/10 09:00 AM, Jason Grout wrote: On 7/24/10 2:24 AM, David Kirkby wrote: Perhaps changing Rate this to Please rate this might increase the percentage of people that rate worksheets. Clearly there is not much interest in rating them now.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/12/10 11:03 AM, Jason Grout wrote: Sage is in my opinion a lot more intimidating than Mathematica to start with. This is what you get when you start Mathematica http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/Mathematica-7-startup.png There's going to get some examples to look at, and they

[sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-08-12 Thread mda_
There's going to get some examples to look at, and they are going to be decent ones. They make Mathematica look very easy - only later do you find out that its far from a trivial program to use well. Programming isn't trivial in general. Python is very productive precisely because of its

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-03-13 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:16:02AM +, John Cremona wrote: ...and then we would want some way of testing that all the good worksheets all still work with each new release? Shouldn't those good worksheets simply be the Thematic Tutorials that Minh is currently organizing? All in all, those

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-02-24 Thread John Cremona
...and then we would want some way of testing that all the good worksheets all still work with each new release? John On 24 February 2010 01:54, Oscar Lazo algebraicame...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 feb, 10:39, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: If one sets up a Sage server for

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-02-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Oscar Lazo wrote: On 23 feb, 10:39, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: If one sets up a Sage server for public use, there is the opportunity for someone to publish worksheets, there is a section: Browse published Sage worksheets (no login required) But often those worksheets are

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-02-24 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: Oscar Lazo wrote: On 23 feb, 10:39, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: If one sets up a Sage server for public use, there is the opportunity for someone to publish worksheets, there is a section:

[sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-02-24 Thread Maurizio
Hi all On Feb 24, 2:24 pm, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: Oscar Lazo wrote: On 23 feb, 10:39, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: If one sets up a Sage server for public use, there is the opportunity for someone to publish worksheets, there is a section:

[sage-devel] Re: Should there be some *good* examples on notebook?

2010-02-23 Thread Oscar Lazo
On 23 feb, 10:39, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: If one sets up a Sage server for public use, there is the opportunity for someone to publish worksheets, there is a section: Browse published Sage worksheets (no login required) But often those worksheets are bad examples,