Dear Evan, salut Jean-Paul,
for reasons probably similar to yours, I wrote and upgraded an
introduction to Maxima for my students, alas in German.
If you want to take a look:
http://www.ziegenbalg.ph-karlsruhe.de/#Erste-Hinweise-zu-Maxima
The text (as well as my homepage per se) also contains additional
information on tutorials and other introductory texts.
Also, on my homepage there is an English language section with further
examples - although as far as the programming examples are
concerned, it makes little difference if they are written in German,
English or French - as long as you do without Umlauts or accents
(which I recommend anyway, at least as far as the Umlauts are
concerned):
http://www.ziegenbalg.ph-karlsruhe.de/materialien-homepage-jzbg/materials-in-english/index.html
Best regards,
Jochen
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jean-Paul Roy <Jean-Paul.Roy at unice.fr>
> To: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> Cc:
> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 09:40:51 +0200
> Subject: Documentation on 'Maxima as a CAS engine'
> In the same vein as Evan's question on a "student book" on Maxima, in which documentation may I find an explicit *tutorial* (not only sample code) on using Maxima as a CAS engine callable from another programming language (say Python) ?
> Thanks,
>
> -jpr