Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for use in the classroom

Re:Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for ... by thetest3r on Saturday February 13, 2016 @10:37PM (#11097027)

What about http://mathics.github.io/?

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Re:Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for ... by williamstein on Saturday February 13, 2016 @10:47PM (#11097045)

Thanks. I've created an issue to add mathics support (via the Jupyter kernel) to SageMathCloud: https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/issues/417 It's awesome that there's a free open source Mathematica-like program now.

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Re:Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for ... by sn6uv on Sunday February 14, 2016 @03:32PM (#11099859)

Great idea!

I'm working on a fully featured jupyter kernel that will eventually get merged into the main Mathics repo [1]. I was planning to inquire about some hosting in a couple of weeks (once my exams are over and I have a chance to finish the jupyter kernel off).

Edit: [1] https://github.com/sn6uv/Mathics/tree/jupyter

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Re:Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for ... by sn6uv on Sunday February 14, 2016 @03:16PM (#11099790)

Mathics is a similar project, although the aim is to be an open source interpreter of the Wolfram (Mathematica) language.

It's analogous to the Octave/Matlab relationship.

The development team is also much smaller; I'm the only one contributing regularly to Mathics at the moment. Happy to answer questions.

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