Video Instructions

SageMathCloud is by far the best way to use Sage for new users. To help you get things sorted out there are many freely available video tutorials. Each is a short, focused demonstration of how to do something useful with SMC.

Videos by William Stein

To avoid becoming language-dependent these videos are silent. This is better for Sage’s global audience, and I like to pretend that Buster Keaton is the one moving the mouse.

• How to create an account on SMC
• Basic account management on SMC: Changing your username, password, or email address.
• Using LaTeX throughout the interface with MathJax support
• Creating and editing LaTeX documents

Videos by Theron Hitchman

(I will fill these in as they get made.) The following videos all focus on using Sage through the SageMathCloud service.

• What is Sage?
• Managing Projects: create, rename, describe, search, hide, delete, re-establish, share
• Managing Files in a Project with the GUI: create, import, delete, rename, move, search, download
• Common file types in SMC: worksheets, terminals, LaTeX, pdf, iPython, tasks, markdown, code
• Settings: user-level and project-level
• Using the terminal to manage files: cd, mkdir, touch, open, rm, ls, pwd, less, more
• Sage as a Calculator
• Sage for linear algebra: vectors and matrix algebra
• Sage and methods: object-oriented syntax
• Sage and Python scripting
• Annotating Sage worksheets with html or markdown
• Printing from SMC
• SMC’s chat feature
• Finding help: [tab]-completion, the ? and ?? methods
• 2D plotting
• 3D plotting