Jul 10 2008

Visual Studio, F# and scientific applications: VSLab

From http://www.codeplex.com/vslab:

Visual Studio Lab (VSLab) exploits the power of F# and its interactive top level to provide an interactive environment similar to MatLab and Mathematica, in which you can easily create Add-ins and interact dynamically with them inside Visual Studio. Moreover, since F# is a compiled language, the final code can be compiled as a standalone application.
Goal of the project is to provide the basic infrastructure to turn Visual Studio in VSLab, and a number of addins (called viewlets) used to show data and support development of scientific based applications.”

Useful links:


Nov 24 2007

Interfacing Ruby with Mathematica

Follow this link to download the Ruby interface to MathLink available on the Wolfram Research site.


Nov 1 2007

Solving differential equations: the Euler method

I wrote this simple Mathematica notebook which uses Euler method, a numerical procedure to solve ordinary differential equations.

You can find it here (pdf available).

Mathematica Player can be downloaded from the Wolfram Research website.


Nov 1 2007

Free Adobe Flex Builder for Students and Faculty

It will be available for free download on Adobe website in early November.

Read here the details.

I think this is a great news: it’s the right way to spread new technologies.


Oct 30 2007

Alice – How to teach computer programming in a 3D environment

Check out http://www.alice.org, a research project from Canergie Mellon University.

From the home page, “Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience”.


Oct 20 2007

A Simplex command for Mathematica and examples of its use

Check out an interesting Mathematica Module which produces a simplex tableau for a linear programming problem.


Oct 20 2007

Numerical integration: The Cavalieri-Simpson method

I wrote this simple Mathematica notebook to calculate definite integrals using the Simpson’s rule.

You can find it here (pdf available).

Mathematica Player can be downloaded from the Wolfram Research website.