Where can I find examples/intermediate and examples/advanced? I don't see them in the tar ball on Featured Downloads on the sympy google code site?
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: > > Hi William! > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:08 PM, William Purcell > <williamhpurc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> All, >> >> To introduce myself, I am in my second semester of grad school at >> Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. I use python for pretty >> much everything I do programming wise but I am far from knowledgeable >> (about a year experience). I really enjoy programming and I try to >> make an excuse to code any chance I get. I have been using >> scipy/numpy and matplotlib quite a bit in the last year for classes >> and research. I am really interested in learning how to effectively >> use a CAS, specifically sympy. > > Excellent, great to hear that! > >> >> I am trying to think about how to do homework assignments and >> derivations with sympy. I really have only been able to make real use >> of sympy (and maxima before I found sympy) with algebra (solving >> block diagrams) and basic integrations/differentiations. Do you know >> of any good examples of doing derivations with a sympy or any other CAS? >> I have ran across plenty of tutorials for using maxima and sympy but I >> have never ran >> across an in depth comprehensive derivation or something. The >> tutorials usually have a title along the lines of 'Learn Maxima in 5 >> minutes' or something. I have also seen the examples in the sympy >> source distribution, but most seem to simply demonstrate basic sympy >> capabilities, as they >> probably should. In short I am looking for a couple comprehensive >> examples to learn how to think about using CAS. > > Maybe other can join in, but I think at least examples/intermediate/ > and examples/advanced show plenty of advanced stuff to do with sympy. > > Also a good source of information are all the tests that we have. > > I think the best thing is to try to think how to solve your problem > and then just try it. And ask here on the list whenever you run into > any troubles. > > Ondrej > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
