<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yeah, Sage is wonderful. The only problems I've experienced with it:</font><div><ul style><li style><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">you can't rely on the public servers as frequently they will go down, and </span></li>
<li style><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">having a bunch of students use them in a lab can create a bottleneck where everything is being seen as one IP. To use Sage effectively with a group you need to create your own Sage server. </span><br>
</li></ul><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I don't see Mathics replacing Sage, but it's fun seeing it come into play. Students who might want to become familiar with Mathematica but don't have access to it now have a great resource.</font></div>
</div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Michel</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:53 PM, David Chandler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@mathwithoutborders.com" target="_blank">david@mathwithoutborders.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've just started poking around with Sage, and it looks pretty good to me. I don't see any big advantages using Mathics instead. For students I'm planning to just present them with a limited set of commands, for the topic at hand, and point them to Ted Kosan's very nice newby tutorial for more.<br>
--David Chandler<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:46 PM, michel paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pythonic.math@gmail.com" target="_blank">pythonic.math@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yeah, it can be slow. As they do say on the site, not necessarily industrial strength, but could be useful for educational purposes. However, who knows how it might be able to improve over time?</span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Dan Peirce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peirce.dan@gmail.com" target="_blank">peirce.dan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It looks impressive, but at the moment on line it appears to be<br>
amazingly slow even for simple calculations.<br>
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On 2/10/13, michel paul <<a href="mailto:pythonic.math@gmail.com" target="_blank">pythonic.math@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> A student sent me this.: <a href="http://www.mathics.org/" target="_blank">http://www.mathics.org/</a><br>
><br>
> It's Mathematica lite, for free. Though built with Python, Sage, and SymPy,<br>
> it accepts Mathematica syntax and provides much of its basic functionality.<br>
><br>
> In an age where anyone can do genuinely high quality math in their browser<br>
> for free, that's what we should be showing the kids. I think things are<br>
> going to be heading more in that direction, not less.<br>
><br>
> -- Michel<br>
><br>
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> "What I cannot create, I do not understand."<br>
><br>
> - Richard Feynman<br>
> ===================================<br>
> "Computer science is the new mathematics."<br>
><br>
> - Dr. Christos Papadimitriou<br>
> ===================================<br>
><br>
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===================================<br>"Computer science is the new mathematics."<div><br></div><div>- Dr. Christos Papadimitriou<br>===================================<br></div>
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