Tutorial I: Using the Sage notebook and navigating the help system

Leader: Franco Saliola

Worksheet:

• days38_tutorials/tutorial1.sws (here is the html version of this worksheet)

Resources:

• Sage Quick Reference Card
• The Sage tutorial
• Sage Constructions: "How do I construct ... in Sage?"
• Sage documentation: the standard documentation and other resources
• Calcul mathématique avec Sage (download PDF)

Complimentary worksheets and resources:

• days38_tutorials/tutorial2.sws (html version of the calculus part and html version of the linear algebra part of the worksheet)
• Calculus Quick Reference Card
• Sage Calculus Tutorial
• Linear Algebra Quick Reference Card
• Sage Constructions: "How do I construct ... in Sage?"

Tutorial II: Programming in Python and Sage

Leader: Nicolas Borie and Nicolas Thiéry

Worksheet:

• Programming in Python and Sage
• Additional Exercises (Sage worksheets):
  • days38_tutorials/CollatzConjecture.sws: practice writing functions, plotting and interact while exploring the 3n+1-conjecture.
  • days38_tutorials/Dictionaries-GraphTheory.sws: learn about dictionaries through graph theory exercises. (The Graph Theory Quick Reference Card might come in handy.)
  • days38_tutorials/Strings-BWT.sws: learn about strings while exploring the Burrows-Wheeler Transform.

Related thematic tutorials:

• Loops and Iterators
• Objects and Classes in Python and Sage
• Functional Programming for Mathematicians
• Testing a conjecture in parallel
• Implementing Algebraic Structures

Learn-to-program resources:

• 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. (Projet Euler en Français; Проект Эйлера (Russian).)
• Learn to Code: The Full Beginner's Guide from lifehacker.com: 5 lessons on the basics of programming (PDF version)
• Google's Exploring Computational Thinking
• Python challenge

Python resources:

• Learn Python in 10 minutes (disponible en français)
• Instant Python: a minimal crash-course in Python.
• Dive into Python is a Python book for experienced programmers. Also available in French, Plongez au coeur de Python, and other languages.
• Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python is an interactive tutorial that covers many essential Python idioms and techniques in depth.
• Python tutorial: the "official" Python tutorial from the Python Software Foundation
• Learn Python the Hard Way is a very beginner book for people who want to learn to code.
• Google's Python class for people with a little bit of programming experience; includes videos of lecture, written materials and exercises.
• Discover Python is a series of articles published in IBM's developerWorks technical resource center.
• Python Programming Wikibook
• Python Standard Library
• High Performance Python

Tutorial III: Contributing to Sage

Leader: Franco Saliola and Anne Schilling

Guides:

• How to Referee Sage Trac Tickets by William Stein
• How to contribute to Sage by Sébastien Labbé
• Introduction to Sage Development by Mike Hansen
• Short step-by-step checklist for reviewing a patch by Franco Saliola
• Sage Developer's Guide:
  • Walking Through the Development Process
  • Review a patch

Videos:

• Contributing to Sage : Who, What and How: video of a talk by William Stein

Related thematic tutorials:

• Editing the Sage sources

ReStructuredText resources:

• Quick reStructuredText: quick reference for reStructuredText
• reStructuredText: more detailed reference
• reStructuredText (saifoo.net)

Mercurial resources:

• Hg Init: a Mercurial Tutorial. In this user-friendly, six-part tutorial, Joel Spolsky teaches you the key concepts of Mercurial.
• Learning Mercurial in Workflows. This page illustrates the use of Mercurial in various workflows.
• Mq Tutorial. A tutorial on Mercurial queues.
• A Git User’s Guide to Mercurial Queues

Tutorial: New functionalities in symmetric functions and k-Schur functions in Sage

Leaders: Mike Zabrocki and Anne Schilling

Worksheet:

• days40_tutorials/Symmetric_Functions.sws

SageTeX and the Sage cell server: put Sage into Tex and the web

by DanDrake. See the example files from the SageTeX demonstration.