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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 Eduardo Ochs"]]
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+# Emacs, eev, and Maxima - now!
+
+Eduardo Ochs - IRC: edrx, <http://anggtwu.net/>, @eduardoochs on Telegram, <mailto:eduardoochs@gmail.com>
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+I teach Calculus in a bad campus of a good federal univeral in
+Brazil. The main campus of that university is located in a big city
+and has lots of resources, and I work in a small campus, that is in
+a small city, and that has few resources - and we get the students
+that don't get enough points in the entrance exams to go to better
+places. In this presentation I will show how I've been teaching
+Maxima, and Emacs, and eev, to my students.
+
+With very few exceptions my students are "beginners" in a sense that
+is inconceivable in developed countries - they're not people for
+whom things like spreadsheets, Jupyter Notebooks, and VSCode are
+"intuitive"... most of them have never seen a terminal in their
+lives, and many of them have so little familiarity with computers
+that they don't know, for example, that keyboards have a key called
+F8.
+
+It turns out that if we _define_ "beginners" in the right way -
+hint: not by statistics! - then we can find a way to present Maxima,
+and then Emacs and eev, that makes all sense to the "beginners" in
+my classes, and that approach lets them install everything and
+become (sort of) autonomous very quickly. A few students were able
+to install everything - WSL, Debian, Emacs, eev, Maxima - and run
+the examples in about one hour; most others took between one hour
+and two hours, and some others had to plonked.
+
+<http://anggtwu.net/ORG/emacsconf2024.org.html>
+
+About the speaker:
+
+Eduardo is the author of an Emacs package called eev, that is a way
+of creating "executable notes" that apparently makes very little
+sense to people in developed countries. In this talk he will show
+how he has been using Emacs and eev to teach Maxima to his students
+in Brazil, who - with few exceptions - have very little experience
+with computers, and who are not the kind of "beginners" for whom
+programs like spreadsheets and VSCode are "intuitive".
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