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Sage Documentation Project

This is the main community website of the Sage Documentation Project. This page is used as a central point to organize the efforts to create new help pages, tutorials, examples and similar documentation efforts. To add a documentation page to this category, add a link to this page on the last line of the page. Click on "subscribe" above to be posted about changes.

Writing Great Documentation

Jacob Kaplan-Moss has written a series of three articles on how to write great documentation for any open source project. Here is a list of his articles:

  1. What to write --- Various types of documents that a project should have, including reference manual, tutorials, brief feature tours, development guidelines, etc.

  2. Technical style --- good technical styles to follow.

  3. You need an editor -- on the importance of having an editor to look after the project's documentation.

Darrell Anderson has some tips on technical writing that are well worth a read:

  1. Bigshot Words --- some words to avoid. Dilbert also has some tips.

  2. A Proofreader’s Checklist --- common grammatical and spelling mistakes to look out for.

  3. Technical Writing Tips --- numerous points to keep in mind in technical writing.

Other issues

  1. It also helps to use a spell checker.
  2. Documentation issues in open source from OSS Watch.

  3. How to Write Documentation that Will Lead to New Users by Jack Herrington.

  4. Open-source documentation: in search of user-driven, just-in-time writing by Erik Berglund and Michael Priestley. In "SIGDOC '01: Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Computer Documentation", ACM, pages 132--141, 2001.

  5. Documentation by [insert doc type] covers what isn't documentation.

Published Documents

Pages in this wiki (should belong to the category "DocumentationProject").

Title/URL

lang

Abstract

Author

Released/Updated

Netbeans

en

help for coding Python/Sage with Netbeans GUI

[email protected]

2009-01-18/-

WubiGuide

en

Newbie Wubi Linux Sage install under Windows

[email protected]

2009-05-17

External Documents

Not in this wiki (i.e. PDF or website).

Title/URL

lang

Abstract

Author

Released/Updated

Sage and Cython: A Brief Introduction html

en

This is a quick introduction to Sage,[...] One thing I will highlight is using Cython in Sage to make very fast code in an easy way.

Marshall Hampton

-/2008-05-09

Number Theory and the RSA Public Key Cryptosystem pdf

en

This tutorial uses Sage to study elementary number theory and the RSA public key cryptosystem. A number of Sage commands will be introduced that help us to perform basic number theoretic operations such as greatest common divisor and Euler’s phi function. We then introduce the RSA cryptosystem and use Sage’s built-in commands to encrypt and decrypt data via the RSA algorithm.

Minh Van Nguyen

2008-11-04/2009-07-25

Linear error-correcting codes pdf

en

This tutorial introduces some of Sage's functionality in the theory of error-correcting codes.

David Joyner and Robert Miller

2008-05

Group Theory and SAGE: A Primer pdf swstex

en

This is a compilation of Sage commands useful for a student studying group theory for the first time. The SAGE worksheet version has executable cells.

Rob Beezer

2008-11-05/2009-01-30

ImageJ in a Sage notebook, an example of Python calling Java

en

This blogpost explains how to call Java programs from Sage via Jpype Python module

Frédéric Morain-Nicolier

2009-11-10

Sage in practice at Mendelu link

en/cz

Sage html refcard (en) and worksheets from lectures (en/cz)

Robert Marik

2009-12

Documents in the Work

Title/Url

lang

Author

Progress/Status/Need Help

Sage Wikibook Project

en

-

open for anyone

Wish List

This is a list of requested documentations.

Type

Priority

lang

Purpose and Direction

HowTo

high

en

Setup Sage in a classroom situation as a central server.

Examples

medium

en

Plotting of functions, examples how various kinds of functions can be plotted, explain parameters

Numbertypes and Conversation

high

en

Write a guide explaining the different types of numbers in Sage. What are they for (examples), how to convert, which modules are available (e.g. how works Sage->Python->Mpmath ?) and so on. Should target new Sage users, especially if they are used to simpler environments without different number types. Should be part of "Tutorial"

Types

Some definitions on what is what in the list above. (If someone has better definitions, please edit!)

  • Howto: Basic step-by-step guide with screenshots, easy to use, straightforward, probably often updated.

  • Tutorial: Explain a topic, how to do something, similar to howto...

  • Guide: More general than howto and tutorial. For example, explain background knowledge and connect the dots.

  • Examples: List examples on a particular topic. The levels "beginner", "advanced" and "pro" can be used to indicate the level of prior knowledge, where "pro" involves knowledge about programming with Sage, i.e. also Python, while "advanced" only requires an understanding of Sage's basic functionalities and an implicit knowledge about Python programming.

  • Teaching: Material used in teaching.

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