MaplePrimes - comments on Post, Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year

MaplePrimes - comments on Post, Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/36081-Report-From-MaplePrimes-Mentor-Of-The-Year en-us 2026 Maplesoft, A Division of Waterloo Maple Inc. Maplesoft Document System Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:03:24 GMT Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:03:24 GMT The latest comments added to the Post, Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year http://www.mapleprimes.com/images/mapleprimeswhite.jpg MaplePrimes - comments on Post, Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/36081-Report-From-MaplePrimes-Mentor-Of-The-Year thanks http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/36081-Report-From-MaplePrimes-Mentor-Of-The-Year?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year:Comments#comment60657 Thanks for the report, Doug. I like your idea of having select MaplePrime members occasionally host webinars.  I'm trying to put together a screencast that may interest some here, it could be a possible candidate. I'm looking forward to the changes to the MaplePrimes scoring system [given the current nonsense, an improvement to the spam blocking may receive higher priority].   The latest comments added to the Post, Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year 60657 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:54:54 Z Joe Riel Joe Riel significant enhancements or new features http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/36081-Report-From-MaplePrimes-Mentor-Of-The-Year?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year:Comments#comment60659 I would find fit that you start a new blog where contributions for answering Paul's question What significant enhancement or new feature of Maple would you like to see in Maple 15? could be added. I have many requests. Not eye catching, but mainly about the mathematical foundations in Maple, which I do not find so solid.       The latest comments added to the Post, Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year 60659 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:03:31 Z jakubi jakubi Nice job Doug :-) http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/36081-Report-From-MaplePrimes-Mentor-Of-The-Year?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year:Comments#comment60658 Nice job Doug :-)  My wish list contains the following : 1) Better support for algebra manipulation . More flexibility on how equations are presented. 2) The ability to create shortcuts ( ie bookmarks) to Maplets inside Maple ( ie on the meny to the left). 3) An excel solver (Generalized Reduced Gradient) that does not cost 1000 USD for basic Maple version plus 1000 USD for Global optimization toolbox. I do not understand why such local solver is not ship with standard Maple version. 4) One consistent differential notation diff(f, x). I just hate this <img src="file:///C:/Users/Marcus/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-8.png" alt="" />D[1](F)(t, v(t)) notation. I find it to be extremly poor. Especially when you have a lot of variables. It is completely impossble to see what is what. I completely hate it ! 5) Default text and equation sizes must be much larger. I find my self to constantly having to increase the size to 16 which is quite annoying. 6) Embedded components. It must be possible to increase the size of the slider. When you have many values ie -100 to 100 and small tick sizes it is just impossble to see anything. 7) The GUI should be able to handle asynchronious updates ie running a loop in the background while the user have control over the prombt (ie entering other commands simultaniously) ie run a loop until I type stop etc. This should also work with Embedded components ie update some data in a mathcontainer while the user enters other commands etc.  8) Vertical tickmarks on the x-axis in a plot ie tickmarks like 2009-08-01 must be displayed vertical to look good. 9) Flowcharts. Instead of having to code and write loops I want to be able to drag components to a flowcharts. ie random variables, for loops etc etc. This is a more natural way to control an algorithms. 10) A comand to attach data to a worksheet. I find myself importing csv data. But when the worksheet is closed the data is gone. I want to be able to right click on a matrix and select attach to worksheet. Now I have to first convert the matrix to a listlist and copy and past into a codeedit region. Which only works for small samples   The latest comments added to the Post, Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year 60658 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:30:46 Z alex_01 alex_01 Done. The new blog entry can http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/36081-Report-From-MaplePrimes-Mentor-Of-The-Year?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year:Comments#comment60660 Done. The new blog entry can be found at <a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/blog/dougmeade/maple15wishlist">http://www.mapleprimes.com/blog/dougmeade/maple15wishlist</a> Doug <pre> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Douglas B. Meade <>< Math, USC, Columbia, SC 29208 E-mail: mailto:meade@math.sc.edu Phone: (803) 777-6183 URL: http://www.math.sc.edu</pre> The latest comments added to the Post, Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year 60660 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:23:23 Z Doug Meade Doug Meade great report http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/36081-Report-From-MaplePrimes-Mentor-Of-The-Year?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year:Comments#comment60661 very interesting report. I think a survey would be a good way to answer the question: What significant enhancement or new feature of Maple would you like to see in Maple 15? My answer: The area in which I find Maple most wanting, FOR MY PURPOSES AND NOT WISHING TO IMPLICATE ANYONE ELSE IN THIS STATEMENT, is the production of graphs. I would like to be able to produce publishable graphs in both 2D and 3D. For this, I'd like the ability to export on the fly in pdf, ps, jpg, and other common formats (by the way, I'd like the postscript format to be the real one, not some fake annoying format reporting errors of syntax when opened with ghostview/ghostscript). I'd like the ability to format the plot the way I want, in particular the ability to control thickness, color, styles, etc. for just about everything including axes, tickmarks, arrows, annotations. It would be nice to be able to generate quality, animated gifs on the fly. I'd like these functions to be available for the dfieldplot and phaseportrait and the likes. AND I'd like to be able to add LaTeX symbols into my plots in much the same way that pstricks works. Now if I had my way, I'd like this to be available in Classic, as I don't use standard at all. I'm sad to report that I now produce nearly all my plots with pstricks and pstricks-add --  Maple plots just not good enough as of version 13. And this is a great burden as it means that I typically do calculations in Maple and produce some nasty plot there and then redraw the graph from scratch with pstricks. If I change parameter values in Maple I've got to change them manually with pstricks and reproduce the graph again... it is driving me nuts. P.S. I don't foresee a demand for hand recognition functionalities over the next 10 years. I wouldn't use it -- I don't even have pens at home. The latest comments added to the Post, Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year 60661 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:00:55 Z PatrickT PatrickT blog http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/36081-Report-From-MaplePrimes-Mentor-Of-The-Year?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year:Comments#comment60662 I was typing as you posted this, so let me copy-paste my message onto your blog. The latest comments added to the Post, Report from MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year 60662 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:02:59 Z PatrickT PatrickT