[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-17 Thread Jason Grout
simon.k...@uni-jena.de wrote: > Hi! > > On 17 Apr., 09:11, Jason Grout wrote: >> If you were working on a shared server, then you wouldn't have to email >> things back to the students. You'd simply "publish" the worksheet back >> to the student or something. > > Please excuse my lack of knowle

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-17 Thread simon . king
Hi! On 17 Apr., 09:11, Jason Grout wrote: > If you were working on a shared server, then you wouldn't have to email > things back to the students.  You'd simply "publish" the worksheet back > to the student or something. Please excuse my lack of knowledge: What exactly does "publishing a worksh

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-17 Thread Jason Grout
Rob Beezer wrote: > Sorry. > > 1. blast, blare -- make a strident sound > 2. blast, shell -- create by using explosives > 3. blast-out -- email each student's graded worksheet back to them as > part of a batch process for the whole class It seems that the worksheet will have to somehow know the

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-17 Thread Jason Grout
Rob Beezer wrote: > On Apr 13, 12:20 am, William Stein wrote: >> It might also be nice to integrate this with email, I.e., after I >> grade all the worksheets, I could have sage use its email command to >> email out all the graded versions of the worksheets back to the >> students I'm looki

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-16 Thread Rob Beezer
Sorry. 1. blast, blare -- make a strident sound 2. blast, shell -- create by using explosives 3. blast-out -- email each student's graded worksheet back to them as part of a batch process for the whole class Rob On Apr 16, 10:25 pm, Nick Alexander wrote: > > 2.  A one-click process, or a simpl

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-16 Thread Nick Alexander
> 2. A one-click process, or a simple form, which would then blast-out > all the graded worksheets would be a real timesaver. What does blast-out mean? Nick --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe fr

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-16 Thread Rob Beezer
On Apr 13, 12:20 am, William Stein wrote: > It might also be nice to integrate this with email, I.e., after I > grade all the worksheets, I could have sage use its email command to > email out all the graded versions of the worksheets back to the > students   I'm looking for little ideas like

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-15 Thread gerhard
import sage.misc.latex as l l.LATEX_HEADER+='\\def \\foo {FOO defined successfully}\n' does indeed define a macro \foo that can be used from a %latex cell in the notebook. I am having no luck with tixz so far. I tried l.LATEX_HEADER+='\\def \\pgfsysdriver {pgfsys-dvips.def}\n\\usepackage {tikz}

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-15 Thread gerhard
I had noticed the emoticon, and I did get quite a laugh! It's quite appropriate too. So what triggers the use of SLIDE_HEADER in sage/misc/latex.py? I tried asking the question in support, because I was trying for a solution to some of my own suggestions -gerhard --~--~-~--~~

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-15 Thread William Stein
2009/4/15 gerhard : > > re software-development.jpg > > agreed!!. > but if you do not start with use cases (Fig 1.5?) > you get hacks (Fig 1.3?). > > The ability to share code between worksheets > in a controlled fashion is still very high on my wishlist > and would let me solve a number of my pro

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-15 Thread gerhard
re software-development.jpg agreed!!. but if you do not start with use cases (Fig 1.5?) you get hacks (Fig 1.3?). The ability to share code between worksheets in a controlled fashion is still very high on my wishlist and would let me solve a number of my problems. Yes, I can of course load pytho

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-14 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:07 AM, gerhard wrote: > > May I suggest broadening the discussion: > > applications: >  * Homework / grading >  * Lecture/Talk >  * Collaboration on Text Books/ Study Guides > > Some functionality that these might imply: >  * collect worksheets in a structure (tree view)

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-14 Thread kcrisman
It might be a good idea to implement the previously discussed idea of not downloading worksheets with all the bzipped history for this, otherwise the downloads would be truly jumbo. Unfortunately I do not have the expertise to implement the "download with history" versus "download latest versio

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-14 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 13, 2009, at 8:04 AM, William Stein wrote: >> Idea 1 (as mentioned before): >> >> Each worksheet can have an unlimited number of tags. You can easily >> filter by tags in the listing of worksheets. In the worksheet >> listing, >> you can click on the checkbox next to a bunch of workshe

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-14 Thread gerhard
May I suggest broadening the discussion: applications: * Homework / grading * Lecture/Talk * Collaboration on Text Books/ Study Guides Some functionality that these might imply: * collect worksheets in a structure (tree view) * share code/data between worksheets e.g., each sheet

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Dan Drake wrote: >>> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 at 09:41PM -0700, William Stein wrote: I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30 homework assignments that

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-13 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Dan Drake wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 at 09:41PM -0700, William Stein wrote: >>> I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30 >>> homework assignments that are turned in as sage worksheets. If any of >>> you reading

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Dan Drake wrote: > On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 at 09:41PM -0700, William Stein wrote: >> I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30 >> homework assignments that are turned in as sage worksheets.  If any of >> you reading this have also graded homew

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-13 Thread Dan Drake
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 at 09:41PM -0700, William Stein wrote: > I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30 > homework assignments that are turned in as sage worksheets. If any of > you reading this have also graded homework turned in as Sage > worksheets, and have thoughts abou

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-12 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: > > > On 12-Apr-09, at 9:57 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Nick Alexander >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 12-Apr-09, at 9:41 PM, William Stein wrote: >>> Hi, I'm going to write something to ma

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-12 Thread Nick Alexander
On 12-Apr-09, at 9:57 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Nick Alexander > wrote: >> >> >> On 12-Apr-09, at 9:41 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30 >>> homework assignments that are turned

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-12 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:41 AM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30 > homework assignments that are turned in as sage worksheets.  If any of > you reading this have also graded homework turned in as Sage > worksheets, and have though

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-12 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: > > > On 12-Apr-09, at 9:41 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30 >> homework assignments that are turned in as sage worksheets.  If any of >> you reading this have also g

[sage-devel] Re: grading homework

2009-04-12 Thread Nick Alexander
On 12-Apr-09, at 9:41 PM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30 > homework assignments that are turned in as sage worksheets. If any of > you reading this have also graded homework turned in as Sage > worksheets, and have thoughts abo