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Re: Draw Curve


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  • From: marc lalaude-labayle <address@hidden>
  • To: Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>
  • Cc: HG <address@hidden>, texmacs-users <address@hidden>
  • Subject: Re: Draw Curve
  • Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:40:03 +0100

Joris, and to all

I just compiled the new SURPRISE! version of texmacs. The # shortcut is allready a "must have". I have to learn how to draw the curve of a function with Scheme. I googled without success but got some pdf to read :)

Thanks for the reactivity.

Best,

Marc

Le jeu. 26 mars 2020 à 09:24, Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden> a écrit :
Henri,
 that's a great idea! Just this morning I showed to my 13yo son how to use TeXmacs to type in his math exercises... he seems appreciate the better quality wrt to Word :)

m


> On 26. Mar 2020, at 09:11, HG <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Thank you :)
>
> I remenber I am french lol and I thaught of looking in french tutorial, in fact there is a lot !
>
> I am looking for drawing and graphics  because the quarantine my son son 8 ans old has some maths to do. On w10 scheme seems the best integrated  in texmacs ?
>
> I could use geogebra sagemath but I like texmacs for the nice presentation and I would like to do a kind of tutorial for CE1 kids (8ans) and upper. Not only in maths but in french and others languages (chinese my wife being).
>
> Thank you all for your good help, it's important to not feel alone in these moments
>
> best
>
> Henri
>
> Le 25/03/2020 à 22:41, Giovanni Piredda a écrit :
>>
>> On 25.03.20 21:48, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
>>> There is documentation in the manual about scheme:
>>>
>>> Help -> Scheme extensions -> Overview of the scheme extension language.
>>>
>>> For general knowledge about the language you can read any tutorial, there are many here:
>>>
>>> https://schemers.org
>>>
>>> hth,
>>> m
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Two tutorials which I liked are
>>
>> http://ds26gte.github.io/tyscheme/index.html
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://www.shido.info/lisp/idx_scm_e.html
>>
>> (the last one seems simpler to me).
>>
>>
>> The reference to Guile (the implementation of Scheme use by TeXmacs) is
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.8/guile-ref/
>>
>> and one could use as well references to other implementations as one could find some of the descriptions easier to follow (but one has to keep in mind that the details, e.g. which functions are defined, are different)
>>
>> MIT Scheme:
>>
>> https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scheme-7.4/doc-html/scheme_toc.html
>>
>> Racket:
>>
>> https://docs.racket-lang.org/
>>
>> I have a quite rough knowledge of the language, but I start "feeling" that the way to use it is through function composition, not through a sequence of instructions (like one does in Fortran for example). It "feels" like building "things" with "objects" that become more complex (inside) as the work goes on but nevertheless "fit together".
>>
>> But maybe it is just my imagination ;-)
>>




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