From f89458c5308495f06f4232c750cd47d40de968c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:01:25 -0500 Subject: remove org-teach --- 2024/talks/maxima.md | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2024/talks/maxima.md (limited to '2024/talks/maxima.md') diff --git a/2024/talks/maxima.md b/2024/talks/maxima.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c9b508b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/2024/talks/maxima.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +[[!meta title="Emacs, eev, and Maxima - now!"]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 Eduardo Ochs"]] +[[!inline pages="internal(2024/info/maxima-nav)" raw="yes"]] + + + + +# Emacs, eev, and Maxima - now! + +Eduardo Ochs - IRC: edrx, , @eduardoochs on Telegram, + +[[!inline pages="internal(2024/info/maxima-before)" raw="yes"]] +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. + + + +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". + +[[!inline pages="internal(2024/info/maxima-after)" raw="yes"]] + +[[!inline pages="internal(2024/info/maxima-nav)" raw="yes"]] + + -- cgit v1.2.3