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

Leader: Franco Saliola

Worksheet: We will be starting with a blank worksheet, but here is a worksheet that can be used for self-study.

• Using the Sage Notebook and navigating the help system (here is the html version of this worksheet)

Resources:

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

Post-tutorial Updates:

• Final worksheet from today's tutorial (and the pdf version)
• link to the trac ticket #14094 for the bug we found in Sage during the tutorial

See also the tutorials page from Sage Days 38.

Sharing worksheets with the windows VirtualBox appliance

If the virtual appliance is started, follow section 4 of the sage appliance wiki.

Otherwise follow these steps:

1. Highlight the sage appliance and select Settings.
2. Under the settings, navigate to the shared folders options and follow the above directions starting at step #3.

Tutorial: Introduction to Version Control

Leader: Vincent Delecroix featuring Franco Saliola

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 IV: Contributing to Sage

Leader: Chris Berg featuring Franco Saliola

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)