On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:48 PM, A. Jorge Garcia <calcpage@aol.com> wrote:
NEW: Blogs, Videos and Donorschoose!

Please enjoy my blogs on Midterm Week (installing SAGE and Ubuntu) and Course Selection Week (Recruiting for next year)!
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com


FLOSS = Free Linux Open Source Software?  Hadn't heard that, clever.

I like the stuff on primes in SAGE.

Does SAGE let us do generators?  No doubt.

Projected Python:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/5419722514/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/5419119093/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/5419125705/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/5419755072/in/photostream/
 
Here's some new Algebra II Trig and preCalculus related screen-casts (Law of Sines, Law of Cosines)!
http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009


Eew, a calculator.  No wait, I'm trying to be pro calculator these days:

http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/msg/a3b22bd4f2255ac9?hl=en

http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/browse_thread/thread/bd7ee358e7d1c4d8?hl=en

(suggests emulating calculators as a premier genre when learning to program)

http://xkcd.com/768/

 
Take a look at my latest DonorsChoose project (new Tablet PC for SmartBoarding and ScreenCasting)!
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=520470&challengeid=32688&more=true


Very enterprising and good for showing off software designed to power charitable giving,
something I think about a lot vis-a-vis my "Coffee Shops Network" (featuring games that
let you be a hero, winning funds for worthy charities  -- your donor profile may become a 
walking-your-talk credential of sorts).

Kirby

 
HTH,
A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math and CompSci
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009

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