I am glad to see the recent activity to get more tutorial material for
beginners posted on the internet.
I have three chapters up on my Cal State Long Beach web page under the
working title "Maxima by Example".
I would appreciate a link to these notes from the Maxima docs page etc.
My webpage is http://www.csulb.edu/~woollett/
Contents in outline:
Chapter 1, Getting Started (28 pages):
1. Introduction,
2. Expressions in Maxima,
3. List Creation and Manipulation in Maxima,
4. Data Files: Read, Write, Fit and Plot,
5. Latex Figures from Maxima plot2d
Chapter 2, Algebra, Part 1 (31 pages)
1. Introduction,
2. Simplifying Expressions,
3. Factoring Expressions,
4. Making Substitutions
Chapter 3: Algebra, Part 2 (27 pages)
1. Extracting Parts of an Expression,
2. Extracting Parts of a Complex Expression,
3. Evaluating Trigonometric Functions,
4. Expanding and Simplifying Trig Expressions,
5. Evaluating Summations
I welcome comments and suggestions for improvements as I work on chapter 4.
Ted Woollett