Re: Recommended learning exercises for beginners?
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- Subject: [mg63800] Re: [mg63756] Recommended learning exercises for beginners?
- From: Clifford Martin <camartin at snet.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 02:33:25 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Why not Nancy Blachman's book or the Gray's introduction. Nancy's book has lots of good exercises. Sounds perfect for your audience. They're not notebooks but the price is reasonable. Also Browns website book has exercises. Dont' remember if it has notebooks. Good luck, Cliff Gareth Russell <russell at njit.edu> wrote: Hi Group, I am teaching a course (for the third time) using Mathematica to explore Theoretical Ecology. Students mostly have no prior experience with Mathematica, so in the first class we look mainly at Mathematica itself, and I give the students homework designed to get them using it and learning some of the basics. Do date, I have used a mish-mash of my own material, but it could certainly be more coherent. So I am wondering... Do any of you have recommendations for 'Introduction to Mathematica' notebooks that have worked well for you (or your students)? I'm thinking of practice exercises, as well material to study. If I get a number of responses I'll collate them and repost as a resource for the group. Gareth Russell NJIT