Quotes

SageMath/Cloud, in my view, is an absolutely brilliant and entirely wonderful gift to science - in all dimensions: technical, ethical, educational. Thank you Dr. Stein.

-- Elbert Branscomb - Department of Physics, University of Illinois

My 150+ students are now actively using SMC. This time last year I was running around in a panicked state rebooting servers and various other things as our local Sage Mathematical Software System server kept crashing. This year it's been completely painless with all the students using SageMathCloud. Even had the opportunity to teach some markdown to some students and also heard of a group of 3 who were collaboratively writing revision notes using a shared +IPython notebook. Great tool.

-- Vincent Knight - Computing for Mathematics - Cardiff University

SMC (sage math cloud) is a great way to get going quickly and efficiently...no setup problems. I used it almost exclusively last year, and my students did use it exclusively. SMC is a full-blown unix env. with dozens of tools if you or your students are interested in other areas of technical computing

-- Singlet on sage-edu

SMC offers both the numerical capabilities of MatLab and the analytical tools of Mathematica that will meet the students' needs. It also will provide a great introduction to programming via Python that will expose students to this essential skill as the go through their coursework.

-- quote just now from a college teacher evaluating using SageMathCloud, 2014-09-15

I wanted to say thanks for installing those compilers I asked about a few weeks ago. I'm using Sage Cloud in my Programming Languages course, and I have one big project with all 34 students on it. I tested out a teaching idea this week where the entire class collectively writes some code to solve an exercise problem (after first working it out in small groups), and it worked really well. I could say things like "OK, what do we do next" and then I could have a student type something in while the whole class watches, and then another student could fix something from the first student's code, etc. The students thought it was pretty cool, and I did too. I'm really looking forward to using this the rest of the semester.

Thanks for making this system available!

-- Eric Manley, Ass. Prof. of CS, Drake University

A kind and peaceful service which gives opportunities to learn and enjoy math for everyone.

-- join request sage-cloud@googlegroups

The LaTeX in SMC is phenomenal and I really love the ability to store all of my files together in a project. It's hard to say how awesome these features are! This is handy for any kind of work; from a teaching perspective, I think this will be particularly useful in sharing information and providing an unified workspace.

-- Jeff Denny, private e-mail, 2013-09-25

I have definitely noticed the recent hardware upgrades. I am using cloud.sagemath in a classroom of 36 students (undergraduate physics), and cloud.sagemath has been nice and fast...very zippy. Results are coming right back at us. It's great!

-- T. Bensky, sage-cloud, 2013-09-12