[Blindmath] mathematica accessibility

[John G. Heim]

I manage the research servers for the University Of Wisconsin Department 
of Mathematics. I have never had a request for mathematica but a lot of 
people use the open-source alternative, sage.  If mathematica is not 
accessible, maybe you can get your instructor to let you use sage instead.


Around here, there is a mixture of instructors who feel it is their duty 
to have the students use free, open-source tools if possible and those 
who don't want to be bothered with it. There are some instructors who 
would leap at a chance to start using sage instead of something each 
student has to purchase and others who would refuse to fiddle with it.





On 09/18/2016 12:17 PM, Daniel Gillen via Blindmath wrote:
> as a college physics major, there were several times that I've had to use Mathematica instead of MATLAB (my preferred computational language). I find that both programs are only somewhat accessible when run into man-line mode. I'm not exactly sure how you run Mathematica on the commandline. However, The GUI (Graphical user interface) editors in both applications are completely inaccessible as of this time. I have just found that when creating code using either scripting/programming language, it was most convenient for me to edit the file in Notepad, and then run/test it on the command line. hopefully this is helpful info.
>
> Thank you,
> Daniel
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> sent from my iPhone
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>> On Sep 18, 2016, at 12:50 PM, Vincenzo Rubano via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> as anyone ever had to deal with Mathematica? If so, how is it in terms of accessibility?
>>
>> https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/ <https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/>
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>> Thanks in advance for your help
>>
>> Vincenzo.
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