[Blindmath] SAGE?

[Sean Tikkun]

I'm curious what your Calc 2 class will be doing with SAGE?  Wolfram research is a CAS leader and has put most of the mathematica engine on Wolfram Alpha.  They also released 2 apps over the weekend that give preset menus and data boxes for iPad/iPod use.  It's really slick and paired with a bluetooth refreshable braille display... will I'm just starting to have fun with that.  I'm certain their are limitations... But I'm curious if anyone can compare the two.  The Alg and Calc app really are driving close to TI-80 series functions in a really simple, and screen reader accessible, format.  Graphs will always be a challenge, but it allows for a table of values instead of graph for evaluation.

I've been hitting them with e-mail suggestions for a few months. No response, but maybe they were already working on it.


On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Roopakshi Pathania wrote:

> 
> When I first came across Sage, they were planning a native port for Windows. If you check the main page, it looks like they still haven't started it.
> http://windows.sagemath.org/
> But if you go to the download page, there are a couple of binaries.
> http://windows.sagemath.org/download.html
> 
> Of course as they mention, Sage can be run on Cygwin.
> 
> One more thing: when I have tried to access publicly available Sage worksheets, they were not particularly accessible as I couldn't seem to distinguish between Math and Python code for Math.
> That's probably because they are using MathJax or JSMath and I cannot seem to ever manage to read MathML  served that way.
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 1/19/11, Alastair Irving <alastair.irving at sjc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> From: Alastair Irving <alastair.irving at sjc.ox.ac.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] SAGE?
>> To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 8:54 PM
>> Hi
>> 
>> Sage has two interfaces, a commandline one and a web-based
>> one that you access via a browser.  I use the
>> commandline interface all the time and its perfectly
>> accessible.  I've never used the web based interface
>> but imagine it will be much harder to work with.
>> 
>> Sage only runs on linux, so you will need a linux
>> installation.  If you don't want to install linux just
>> for that then you should find out if you can get access to a
>> linux machine with sage which you can SSH into.
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> 
>> Alastair Irving
>> 
>> 
>> On 19/01/2011 14:06, Alex Hall wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I am starting calc 2 this semester. Apparently, we use
>> a program
>>> called SAGE. How is this for accessibility? What
>> should I know about
>>> this, or should I just seek an alternative? Thanks in
>> advance.
>>> 
>> 
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