Subject: suggested Maxima 'book': if you only had one...
From: David Billinghurst
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:53:54 +1000
On 8/09/2012 11:53 AM, Evan Cooch wrote:
> After 15+ years working with Maple, occasional jaunts with Mathematica
> and GAUSS, I'm slowly porting over a lot of CAS-based stuff to Maxima.
> Mostly in a 'teaching' context (where 'free' is a definite plus for
> budget-strapped students).
>
> I find that I spend a lot of time inefficiently writing out my best
> guess at how to do something in Maxima - guess strongly conditioned by
> 'how I would do it in Maple'), not having it work, searching the web
> for 'examples', and then trying again. I've decided to forgo my usual
> approach to learning software (trial and error), and am hoping to
> 'learn by reading' as much as possible. As such, I'm looking for
> suggestions for 'where to start reading'. Of course, I've already
> stumbled across the 'Maxima book' on SourceForge, but am wondering if
> there is something else (nay, better?) out there that I should also
> consider? Not only for my purposes, but to recommend to students who
> might want to delve deeper into using Maxima for purposes beyond my
> class.
>
> Thanks very much in advance...
>
There are a number of resources at
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/documentation.html. Maxima by Example, by
Ted Woollett is worth a look.