Sage Days 20.5: Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada

Offical website: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/09-10/sage/

Dates: May 3-7, 2010

Organizers: Nantel Bergeron, Franco Saliola, Mike Zabrocki

General Schedule

10h00--10h30 - coffee and introductions
10h30--11h30 - talk/tutorial
11h30--12h30 - talk/tutorial
12h30--14h00 - lunch
14h00--15h00 - talk/tutorial/coding sprints
15h00--15h30 - coffee
15h30 onwards: tutorial/coding sprints/specialized talks/....

Resources

Obtaining and Installing Sage

We will standardize on Sage Version 4.4, so please have that version installed on you computer (this is a very new release, and it might be a day or two until the binaries for version 4.4 are available).

To install, please visit the Sage website and click download. You can either choose to download and install a binary for your system, or you can compile from source. Be aware that compiling from source takes a long time.

Guides

Here is a list of several guides that might prove useful for the conference.

Sage
- Sage tutorial
- A tour of Sage closely follows the tour of Mathematica that is at the beginning of the Mathematica Book.
- Exploring Mathematics with Sage: a free, open-source mathematical workshop
- A quick Cython introduction
- Project Euler: Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. This is a great source of problems to attempt while learning Sage/Python.
Python
- Python tutorial
- Learn Python in 10 minutes (disponible en français)
- Dive into Python is a Python book for experienced programmers. Also available in French, Plongez au coeur de Python, and other languages.
- Discover Python is a series of articles published in IBM's developerWorks technical resource center.
Mercurial
- Hg Init: a Mercurial Tutorial. In this user-friendly, six-part tutorial, Joel Spolsky teaches you the key concepts of Mercurial.

Coding Sprints