Session Schedule: MAA PREP Workshop
Each day is a total of four hours online, broken into two 2-hour sessions. Please get setup in Elluminate a few minutes before the start time. We will post links to recordings of each session to the course email list shortly after the conclusion of the session.
- Session I: 8-10 Pacific, 11-1 Eastern
- Session II: Noon-2 Pacific, 3-5 Eastern
Saturday, May 22
Our goal on the first day is to get everybody comfortable enough in the notebook interface that they can begin to productively explore their own interests in Sage independently. So we will concentrate on the basic use and the various ways to get help and learn more. Questions are encouraged!
Session I - Getting Started
- Introductions: Organizers and Participants (Rob, 30 min)
- Review "PREP Intro Tutorial" worksheet (Karl, 45 min)
- Evaluating commands
- Symbolic functions
- Very basic plotting
- Documentation through the notebook
- Questions (Rob, 15 min)
- Demonstration of Interacts (Jason, 30 min)
Session II - Sage Community
- Resources (45 minutes, Jason)
- Google Groups
- sage-support
- sage-edu
- sage-devel
- MAA list (versus Google Groups)
- Sage wiki (Interacts, Quickrefs)
- sagemath.org
- Reference manual (stand-alone PDF, HTML)
- IRC Demo (??), with irssi or similar simple universal client
- Questions
- Google Groups
- Review "Sage Tutorial for Symbolics and Plotting" (Karl, 30 min)
- Questions (Rob, 30 min)
- Homework: Preparation for next sessions (Rob, 10 min)
- Announcements: Office Hours, June Sessions (Rob, 5 min)
Tuesday, June 8
Wednesday, June 9