Re: Learning Mathematica with neat projects
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- Subject: [mg118434] Re: Learning Mathematica with neat projects
- From: "Christopher O. Young" <cy56 at comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:34:12 -0400 (EDT)
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I'll looks into programming this. It's always been one of my favorite ideas for a demo. Chris Young cy56 at comcast.net IntuMath.org On 4/27/11 5:39 AM, in article ip8o9f$pjn$1 at smc.vnet.net, "Sol Lederman" <sol.lederman at gmail.com> wrote: > I have lots of ideas for interesting projects but not the skill (right now) > to implement them. The next project I'd like to do is a Galton board as > illustrated here: http://www.ms.uky.edu/~mai/java/stat/GaltonMachine.html. > (The disks exercise is a way of warming up to the project.) Yes, there > already exist Galton board demos in Mathematica but I like this particular > style. The challenge is not just to code the design but to code it in such a > way that uses simple Mathematica constructs that are easy to break into > small pieces so that students can experience success and understanding along > the way, and that are easy to explain to folks new to Mathematica.