Intro to Sage

[Dana Ernst]

I'm planning on using Sage for the very first time in both my Calculus II class and my Abstract Algebra class. I am wondering if anyone has any intro to Sage worksheets that they've used with their students. My students are surprisingly non-tech savvy, so something basic would be nice (for me too, since I'm new to Sage, as well!). I already have Beezer's "Group Theory and SAGE: A Primer" but other resources would be great. A worksheet that includes basic stuff like "click on the blue horizontal line to obtain a new cell" would be great.

I'm also interested in a "top 10 list" for the Sage commands my students will probably be using. That is, what are the top ~10 commands that my calculus students (respectively, abstract algebra students) need to know?

Thanks in advance.

Dana Ernst, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Plymouth State University
MSC 29, 17 High Street
Plymouth, NH 03264-1595

Email: dce...@plymouth.edu
Web Page: http://oz.plymouth.edu/~dcernst
Office: Hyde 312

[Oscar Castillo-Felisola]

I found a set of notes of elementary math using Sage in schilly's page
(I don't remember how to get there), but they are in spanish... although
are very useful.

Title: Matematicas Elementales con Sage.
Author: J. L. Tabara.
e-mail: jlta...@gmail.com

You could try them. ;-)

[Harald Schilly]

On Feb 3, 6:02 pm, Oscar Castillo-Felisola
<o.castillo.felis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I found a set of notes of elementary math using Sage in schilly's page...

That's a tutorial translation from here, actually
http://sagemath.org/help.html

H

[Jason Grout]

On 02/03/2010 07:37 AM, Dana Ernst wrote:
> I'm planning on using Sage for the very first time in both my Calculus II class and my Abstract Algebra class. I am wondering if anyone has any intro to Sage worksheets that they've used with their students. My students are surprisingly non-tech savvy, so something basic would be nice (for me too, since I'm new to Sage, as well!). I already have Beezer's "Group Theory and SAGE: A Primer" but other resources would be great. A worksheet that includes basic stuff like "click on the blue horizontal line to obtain a new cell" would be great.
>
>

If you look on the published worksheets for "Introduction", you might
find some nice introductions.

I just asked my calc 1 class to watch the first screencast here:

http://sagemath.org/help-video.html

and then work through the Review worksheet by Ben Woodruff linked here:
http://sagenb.org/home/pub/1043/

Thanks,

Jason

[kcrisman]

>
> I just asked my calc 1 class to watch the first screencast here:
>
> http://sagemath.org/help-video.html
>

Hmm, shouldn't that Youtube video from swasboss be linked there too?
Harald?

- kcrisman

[Rob Beezer]

On Feb 3, 6:37 am, Dana Ernst <dcer...@plymouth.edu> wrote:
> A worksheet that includes basic stuff like "click on the blue horizontal line to obtain a new cell" would be great.

Not exactly what you want, but this is an introductory demo I did for
mathematics students (any course):
http://buzzard.ups.edu/stbseminar/Intro_to_Sage.sws

And this is calculus-specific:
http://buzzard.ups.edu/stbseminar/calculus_tutorial.sws

These are part of a Sage-TeX-Beamer seminar I ran last fall in the
evenings once a week for the first few weeks of the term:
http://buzzard.ups.edu/stb-seminar.html

Rob

[Dana Ernst]

Everything that everyone has sent is awesome. Thanks!

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[mhampton]

You might already be aware of this, but sometimes people miss the
wiki's interact page:
http://wiki.sagemath.org/interact

Some of these are very nice for illustrating things during a lecture,
and then if you want you can explain some of how the code works. I
don't think we have a lot of things for Calc II there yet but at least
they will give you an idea of what is possible.

The quick reference cards might be useful too:
http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref

-Marshall Hampton