FSF in education

[Akarsh Simha]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:34:24PM +0200, Alexander Rieder wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 August 2012 10:13:20 Melissa Mendon?a wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > This might be the time for me to jump into the conversation. I'm here
> > because Tomaz basically forced me to join (lol), I'm a professor at
> > the Mathematics Department at the Federal University of Santa Catarina
> > (Brazil), and I'm also very interested in these topics. However, I'm
> > more interested in the higher education part and I see great potential
> > for Cantor as a report/assignment generating tool. For example, I
> > teach programming classes in the math department (using MATLAB/Octave)
> > and my students could use Cantor to deliver code along with the
> > results and comments.
> > 
> > I'm very interested and could help in the technical side (development,
> > although I'm not a very experienced C++/Qt programmer, more
> > Fortran/Python/C/Matlab).
> > 
> > Anyway, Marcelo feel free to contact me in Portuguese if you need anything.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Melissa
> 
> Hi,
> this sounds like a great use-case for Cantor and an even better opportunity to 
> gain insight in its current shortcomings. I'd love to work with you on making 
> Cantor a better tool for teaching.
> As I am a student and wrote Cantor to fit my personal needs, it would be greate 
> to gain insight to your needs from a teachers prespective.

Actually, I love to use Cantor for homework / quick calculations
because it typesets the results using LaTeX!  <3

Thank you for your wonderful contribution.

Regards
Akarsh