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Re:Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? ... by lallysingh on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:05AM (#29120300)
It's a fantastic math education tool. Manipulate[] itself is worth the fee for the home/hobby price. The student price is half of that.

But sure! Take the limited motivation and effort the student's got and make them go through 16th century tech to learn it all.

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Re:Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? ... by AlanYx on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:31PM (#29121551)
And hobbyists don't even have to pay the student price since Wolfram has made the full version of Mathematica free (as in beer, not as in libre) for Raspberry Pi users.

It's such a nice, accessible environment for learning. My daughter is still too young to begin exploring SageMath, NumPy, SciPy, etc., but we've had fun together plotting things in Mathematica.

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