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Orthwein Maple 10 Developer Tutorial 2005 |
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The
Purpose of this tutorial is to help faculty get quick access to tools,
tutorials (Maplets), and development hints and examples that they might find
most useful for application in their own courses. Note that
Maple 10 has two interfaces through the Standard Maple 10 icon and the
Classic Maple 10 icon. The Standard interface is generally a higher level
application that can be used with less user programming, including a very
nice new math document creator and editor which is not available in the
Classic version. This tutorial is intended
for those faculty who wish to interject a little more of their own creativity
into the development of materials for their courses. This means that a little
more programming will be involved, and so the description below refers
primarily to the Classic version, which I find more convenient for developing
my own course materials and which requires less memory for more efficient use
on older computers. In order to automatically
launch the Maple files with the Maple 10 Classic version, you should make
sure that on your computer files of type *.mws are associated with this
version. Also, in order to launch the *.mws files linked below (depending on
your operating system or browser), you may need to right click and save them
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The
Student Package of Maple 10 is a good place to start to get a feeling for the
type of built in tools and tutorials (Maplets) that are available to
developers. Next, I have included some sample explorations, and an example
(Precalculus Exploration 3) of how I sometimes begin with an exploration as a
starting point, and then create a corresponding quiz, ultimately posting the
quiz and quiz answers on my course website. Finally, I have included
some materials for learning how to write ones own Maplets, which are
essentially Maple programs wrapped up in an interactive Java applet.
In order to see more examples of how I use Maple and Java in my courses, visit my other course pages by clicking on the various buttons on the left panel. Gradually, I will add more examples to this page.
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