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Alchemyst: Links to Sage and Python

2012-02-23T07:04:43Z

Links to Sage and Python

137.215.122.240: /* Open source downloads */

2010-07-05T12:02:01Z

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Carel: /* Open source downloads */

2010-07-02T14:30:21Z

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AndreC: Conistent formatting of tables

2010-03-05T06:38:01Z

Conistent formatting of tables

AndreC: fixed link

2010-02-01T11:24:26Z

fixed link

137.215.122.240: /* Open source downloads */

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 |[[Python]] with the also a very compelling alternative to Matlab. We recommend the Anaconda distribution. || <center>[https://www.continuum.io/downloads Anaconda homepage]</center>
 |-
-|rowspan="2"|Simulink
+|rowspan="3"|Simulink
 |''Modelica'' is an excellent replacement to Simulink.||<center>[http://www.modelica.org/ Modelica] [http://openmodelica.org OpenModelica]</center>
 |-

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 ! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" | Symbolic computation
 |-
-|rowspan="2"|Maple / Mathematica
+|rowspan="3"|Maple / Mathematica
 |''SymPy'' can do quite a lot of what you want in the Python environment||<center>[http://www.sympy.org/ Website]</center>
 |-

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 ! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" |Text Editor
 |-
-|Crimson Editor||A windows based text editor that is feature rich and highly configurable. It supports a number of languages including C/C++, Java, LaTeX, Matlab, Octave, Perl and Python. Currently it is maintained by the Emerald Editor team.||<center>[http://www.crimsoneditor.com CE homepage] <br/> [http://www.emeraldeditor.com EE homepage] </center>
+|Atom||Modern editor by the GitHub developers.||<center>[https://atom.io/ Website]</center>
 |-
 ! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" | Computational tools
 |-
 |rowspan="2"|Matlab
-|''Octave'' is the smallest of the Matlab clones. Simple programs should run without problems in Matlab.||<center>[http://ragnarok.up.ac.za/programdownloads/octave-windows.exe Download]</center>
+|''Octave'' is the smallest of the Matlab clones. Simple programs should run without problems in Matlab.||<center>[https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Website]</center>
 |-
-|[[Python]] with the ''Scilab'' package is also a very compelling alternative to Matlab. || <center>[http://python.org Python homepage] <br/>[http://scipy.org Scipy homepage]</center>
+|[[Python]] with the also a very compelling alternative to Matlab. We recommend the Anaconda distribution. || <center>[https://www.continuum.io/downloads Anaconda homepage]</center>
 |-
 |rowspan="2"|Simulink
-|''Scilab'' has similar functionality to Simulink as well as Matlab, but Scilab programs may not run in Matlab.  Scilab 3 has a lot of added featues and may be more compatible with your Matlab programs (still no running of Scilab programs in Matlab though)||<center>[http://ragnarok.up.ac.za/programdownloads/scilab27.exe Download]</center>
+|''Modelica'' is an excellent replacement to Simulink.||<center>[http://www.modelica.org/ Modelica] [http://openmodelica.org OpenModelica]</center>
 |-
-|''HyVisual'' is like Simulink. It includes support for Finite State Machine descriptions of models and a lot more. You can check out the manual [http://ragnarok.up.ac.za/programdownloads/hyvisual.pdf here]. Note that you need [[Java Runtime Environment]] to get this to work.||<center>[http://ragnarok.up.ac.za/programdownloads/HyViInst.exe Download]</center>
+|''Scilab'' has similar functionality to Simulink as well as Matlab, but Scilab programs may not run in Matlab.  Scilab 3 has a lot of added featues and may be more compatible with your Matlab programs (still no running of Scilab programs in Matlab though)||<center>[http://www.scilab.org/ homepage]</center>
 |-
 |S+||''R'' is similar to S+ (no, really). It does more statistical operations, but is not Matlab-like at all||<center>[http://ragnarok.up.ac.za/programdownloads/rw1061.exe Download]</center>
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 |-
 |rowspan="2"|Maple / Mathematica
-|''Maxima'' is a full-featured Computer Algebra System. Many of Mathematica and Maple's functionality is derived from Maxima.||<center>[http://ragnarok.up.ac.za/programdownloads/maxima-5.9.0.exe Download]</center>
+|''SymPy'' can do quite a lot of what you want in the Python environment||<center>[http://www.sympy.org/ Website]</center>
 |-
-|[[Sage]] is a project that is attempting to produce a viable alternative to Mathematica and many other tools.  They are making real progress||<center>[http://www.sagemath.org/ Sage homepage]<br/>[http://www.sagenb.org Live demo]<br/>[http://ftp.ee.up.ac.za/pub/windows/maths/sage-virtualbox-4.3.zip Windows image]</center>
+|[[Sage]] is a project that is attempting to produce a viable alternative to Mathematica and many other tools.  They are making real progress||<center>[http://www.sagemath.org/ Sage homepage]<br/>[http://www.sagenb.org Live demo]</center>
 |-
 ! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" | Browsers and Mail clients

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 |''Octave'' is the smallest of the Matlab clones. Simple programs should run without problems in Matlab.||<center>[http://ragnarok.up.ac.za/programdownloads/octave-windows.exe Download]</center>
 |-
-|''Python'' with the ''Scilab'' package is also a very compelling alternative to Matlab. || <center>[http://python.org Python homepage] <br/>[http://scipy.org Scipy homepage]</center>
+|[[Python]] with the ''Scilab'' package is also a very compelling alternative to Matlab. || <center>[http://python.org Python homepage] <br/>[http://scipy.org Scipy homepage]</center>
 |-
 |rowspan="2"|Simulink
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 |''Maxima'' is a full-featured Computer Algebra System. Many of Mathematica and Maple's functionality is derived from Maxima.||<center>[http://ragnarok.up.ac.za/programdownloads/maxima-5.9.0.exe Download]</center>
 |-
-|''Sage'' is a project that is attempting to produce a viable alternative to Mathematica and many other tools.  They are making real progress||<center>[http://www.sagemath.org/ Sage homepage]<br/>[http://www.sagenb.org Live demo]<br/>[http://ftp.ee.up.ac.za/pub/windows/maths/sage-virtualbox-4.3.zip Windows image]</center>
+|[[Sage]] is a project that is attempting to produce a viable alternative to Mathematica and many other tools.  They are making real progress||<center>[http://www.sagemath.org/ Sage homepage]<br/>[http://www.sagenb.org Live demo]<br/>[http://ftp.ee.up.ac.za/pub/windows/maths/sage-virtualbox-4.3.zip Windows image]</center>
 |-
 ! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" | Browsers and Mail clients

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 ! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" | Symbolic computation
 |-
-|Maple / Mathematica||''Maxima'' is a full-featured Computer Algebra System. Many of Mathematica and Maple's functionality is derived from Maxima.||<center>[http://ragnarok.up.ac.za/programdownloads/maxima-5.9.0.exe Download]</center>
+|rowspan="2"|Maple / Mathematica
 |-
 ! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" | Browsers and Mail clients

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 |-
 |(Microsoft Word)||''[[TeX]]'' (''MiKTeX'') is a powerful alternative for writing technical documents.||<center>[[TeX|Download]]</center>
 |-
 ! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" | Computational tools

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 {| border="1" cellpadding="2"
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-|width="300pt"|<center>'''Package'''</center>
+|style="width:20%"|<center>'''Package'''</center>
-|width="600pt"|<center>'''Open Source Replacement'''</center>
+|style="width:65%"|<center>'''Open Source Replacement'''</center>
-|width="100pt"|<center>'''Download'''</center>
+|style="width:15%"|<center>'''Download'''</center>
 |-
-|colspan="3"|'''''Office software'''''
+! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" |Office software
 |-
 |Microsoft Office||''OpenOffice'' can read and write Microsoft Office files and export to PDF natively. The suite includes great tools for writing documents, a spreadsheet and a cool drawing program to draw diagrams with||<center>[ftp://ftp.up.ac.za/mirrors/openoffice.org/ Download]</center>
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 |(Microsoft Word)||''[[TeX]]'' (''MiKTeX'') is a powerful alternative for writing technical documents.||<center>[[TeX|Download]]</center>
 |-
-|colspan="3"|'''''Computational tools'''''
+! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" | Computational tools
 |-
 |rowspan="2"|Matlab
 |''Octave'' is the smallest of the Matlab clones. Simple programs should run without problems in Matlab.||<center>[http://ragnarok.up.ac.za/programdownloads/octave-windows.exe Download]</center>
 |-
-|''Python'' with the ''Scilab'' package is also a very compelling alternative to Matlab. || <center>[http://python.org Python homepage] [http://scipy.org Scipy homepage]</center>
+|''Python'' with the ''Scilab'' package is also a very compelling alternative to Matlab. || <center>[http://python.org Python homepage] <br/>[http://scipy.org Scipy homepage]</center>
 |-
 |rowspan="2"|Simulink
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 |S+||''R'' is similar to S+ (no, really). It does more statistical operations, but is not Matlab-like at all||<center>[http://ragnarok.up.ac.za/programdownloads/rw1061.exe Download]</center>
 |-
-|colspan="3"|'''''Symbolic computation'''''
+! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" | Symbolic computation
 |-
 |Maple / Mathematica||''Maxima'' is a full-featured Computer Algebra System. Many of Mathematica and Maple's functionality is derived from Maxima.||<center>[http://ragnarok.up.ac.za/programdownloads/maxima-5.9.0.exe Download]</center>
 |-
-|colspan="3"|'''''Browsers and Mail programs'''''
+! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" | Browsers and Mail clients
 |-
 |rowspan="2"|Internet Explorer
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 |''Thunderbird'' (also by the Mozilla Foundation) can be used to replace Outlook. It enables the download of mail to an external source (like a flash disk) for later viewing. Thunderbird is a very popular mail client on campus.||<center>[ftp://ftp.up.ac.za/mirrors/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/ Download]</center>
 |-
-|colspan="3"|'''''Archiving software'''''
+! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" | Archiving software
 |-
 |WinZip||''7zip'' is a small program able to deal with all the popular archive types (.zip/.rar/.ace) and more (.7z/.tar). Lightweight and free.||<center>[http://ragnarok/programdownloads/7z465.exe Download]</center>
 |}
-Several of these applications are also available on the GnuwinIICD. This is a collection of [[Free Software|free software]], previously available on the [[PMC Lab Computers|Groa server]].
+Several of these applications are also available on the GnuwinIICD. This is a collection of [[Free Software|free software]], available for download [http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/en/order.html here].