Re: Suggestions needed for Mathematica course
- To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
- Subject: [mg372] Re: Suggestions needed for Mathematica course
- From: Richard Bowman <rbowman at Mercury.bridgewater.edu>
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 94 20:40:29 -0500
Gary Gray asked about resources used in teaching Mathematica in college
courses.
I have not taught a separate course on using Mathematica, but I do introduce
and use it in upper-level physics courses at the undergraduate level. I
give each student the "tutorial" by Nancy Blachman, _Introduction to
Mathematica_ (from the June 1992 Mathematica conference in Boston), a brief
hands-on demonstration of starting a Mathematica session and then an assign-
ment with a copy of a completed problem or two using Mathematica. I try to
giive the worked problems after they have gotten into Mathematica a bit.
The Blachman tutorial is available through mathsource.wri.com via ftp.
But I do not have the data in front of me giving the exact directory route
to it. If you have difficulty finding it, contact me directly, and I can
find the route for you.
Please pass along to the list, what you do find successful as the course
goes along.
Richard
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Richard L. Bowman
Dept. of Physics, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA 22812
<rbowman at bridgewater.edu> 703-828-5441
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