Math 480 Lecture 8

1. Reminder that you should hand in homework (remark from Simon)
2. Handout new homework (assignment 3) and briefly discuss it

3. Today: Resources for figuring out how to solve problems using Sage:

   1. search_doc in Sage: search through the docstrings of all functions in Sage
   2. search_src in Sage: search the source code of the sage library
   3. Google! (especially "site:"): I don't know how to teach this, but can demonstrate skills and explain my thinking process.

   4. Python cookbook: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/

   5. Python documentation; tutorial and reference manual
   6. Cython documentation
   7. Numpy documentation
   8. Matlab documentation

   9. Question/answer site: http://ask.sagemath.org

   10. Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/ (lots of QA about Python, Cython, and even Sage there).

   11. sage-support: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support

   12. Live chat: irc (and how easy it is to get on via java): http://sagemath.org/help-irc.html

   13. CAS's in Sage: GAP, Singular, PARI, Maxima