This is exactly the form that you should use for your homework notebooks. Pay attention to these features in this movie:Ġ:52-2:35 How to create a new notebook and structure it right. Hands-on start to Mathematica: Notebooks.Have in mind that the current version of Mathematica is v.10, while we have v.8. However, you can find many more useful movies at the Wolfram site Getting Started with Mathematica. The reason for linking to YouTube is that I liked these movies and I could not find them at the Wolfram site. Movies below are Wolfram movies posted on YouTube. Also learn how to make Sections, Subsections, Subsubsections.Ġ8:31-10:05 How to use Mathematica documentation. I do not use Factor much I use Simplify and FullSimplify much more often.Ġ7:15-07:54 How to create Text Cells, Title. Three important examples are given here: Plot, Factor and Table. Pay attention to these features in this movie:Ġ3:23-04:30 Three simple rules of Mathematica language:įunctions in Mathematica are capitalized. Only Mathematica language is allowed for calculations on Assignments. Your homework notebooks should not contain free-form linguistic input. One general comment: In the movies below please ignore everything that relates to free-form input. Text and commands cannot be mixed.Ī good place to start with learning Mathematica are the following videos from. It is essential that there is no text in an input cell. To change the style of a cell: click the cell bracket this highlights the bracket then choose style from the menu item Format -> Style Then click and a cell insertion bar will appear. Make sure that the pointer becomes a horizontal I-beam. To add a new cell place the pointer in the notebook window below the last cell. Notice that the thin blue brackets of the input and output cells have differently designed tops. The result will appear in an output cell. This tells Mathematica to process your input. After writing 2+2, hold down the Shift key and press Enter (this is abbreviated as Shift+Enter). Start writing something simple, 2+2 for example. As you start writing in a blank notebook Mathematica forms a cell a thin blue frame will appear on the right of the notebook window. When Mathematica starts up, it gives you a blank Mathematica file. Start -> Programs -> Math Applications -> Mathematica 8 You will find Mathematica 8 as follows (this sequence might differ on different campus computers) You need to find a campus computer with Mathematica 8 installed on it (for example computers in BH 215). The current version of Mathematica is v.10.
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