In most calculus courses using the computer is reduced to graph some functions, for which it is sufficient with some very simple programs. Plot is important and a good program is Gnuplot is free, but not very intuitive at first, is intended to integrate with other applications, but is powerful.
A program that integrates gnuplot is maximal, this program is free and can integrate, derive, solve equations, inequalities, differential equations, Fourier analysis, and more. The simplest version is wxMaxima to work, this program is sufficient to accompany the first course in calculus.
A program I recommend is MuPAD is powerful, lightweight, has a nice graphical interface is intuitive and very easy to learn to program (scripts), the problem is that it stopped being free a few years ago and disappeared within a year, was acquired by scilab, the company matlab which owns and does not give you more support. Fortunately Univalle is licensed for this program and the network is a ligth version is completely free and is perfect for a student, can be easily carried in a USB.
is a pleasure to experiment with the computer, play with these programs will see that they can become friends and understand the functions better.
is good to learn a programming language to go further in testing and implementing programs that solve specific problems. I recommend Python is powerful, elegant, free and easy to learn best, is compact with MuPAD, even NASA is using it. There
non-free programs such as Mathematica, Derive, Matlab, but are more for professional use, and it is better to be free, it is better to use free software, the world will be worse if we give total power to the companies.
Those who plan to buy an expensive graphing calculator, such as HP4x, Texas, do not recommend it unless this is the only thing that makes you an engineer. For the price of these slow calculators you can get a Pocket PC, which emulates all of these calculators and hundreds of times faster, also serve media player, translator, calendar and many more things that are very useful for a student, I will write more about these little computers in another post. The most interesting is that these programs are great for pocket pc, such as Space Time, which is a powerful tool pocket for a student (details in another post) I only say that next to the program these calculators are expensive as a sum -potatoes.
To write math (Text Editor) recommend you try TeXmacs program is very easy to use and produces results that could not even dream Word.
A program that integrates gnuplot is maximal, this program is free and can integrate, derive, solve equations, inequalities, differential equations, Fourier analysis, and more. The simplest version is wxMaxima to work, this program is sufficient to accompany the first course in calculus.
A program I recommend is MuPAD is powerful, lightweight, has a nice graphical interface is intuitive and very easy to learn to program (scripts), the problem is that it stopped being free a few years ago and disappeared within a year, was acquired by scilab, the company matlab which owns and does not give you more support. Fortunately Univalle is licensed for this program and the network is a ligth version is completely free and is perfect for a student, can be easily carried in a USB.
is a pleasure to experiment with the computer, play with these programs will see that they can become friends and understand the functions better.
is good to learn a programming language to go further in testing and implementing programs that solve specific problems. I recommend Python is powerful, elegant, free and easy to learn best, is compact with MuPAD, even NASA is using it. There
non-free programs such as Mathematica, Derive, Matlab, but are more for professional use, and it is better to be free, it is better to use free software, the world will be worse if we give total power to the companies.
Those who plan to buy an expensive graphing calculator, such as HP4x, Texas, do not recommend it unless this is the only thing that makes you an engineer. For the price of these slow calculators you can get a Pocket PC, which emulates all of these calculators and hundreds of times faster, also serve media player, translator, calendar and many more things that are very useful for a student, I will write more about these little computers in another post. The most interesting is that these programs are great for pocket pc, such as Space Time, which is a powerful tool pocket for a student (details in another post) I only say that next to the program these calculators are expensive as a sum -potatoes.
To write math (Text Editor) recommend you try TeXmacs program is very easy to use and produces results that could not even dream Word.
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