Groups IRC Video

Help and Support

written resources to learn more about Sage:
- Tutorial (PDF, Printed & Bound) – information for beginners, recommended
- Installation Guide (PDF) – helps you installing Sage (download)
- Reference Manual (PDF) – details about built-in functions
- Constructions (PDF) – describes how to explain specific mathematical objects to Sage
- Quick Reference Cards – overview of important functions
- Screencasts – videos explain how Sage works
- "Sage Tutorial" by William Stein – paperback book at amazon.com
- Sage for Newbies – book by T. Kosan
- FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
- Programming Guide (PDF) – how to program using Sage
Search – an online search interface indexing Sage documentation, discussion groups, various web resources, blogs and various other places on the web
Books — a collection of online available books explaining mathematics (calculus, linear algebra, number theory, ...) using Sage
Planet Sage Blogs – collection of blogs by Sage developers
IRC help channel – directly connects you to an online chat-room
Discussion groups:
- Sage-Support – this discussion group is for all sorts of general questions or problems
- Sage-Edu – this group discusses issues with Sage in education
Understanding Python is very important to use the full power of Sage, because it is the interface and primary programming language. Here are some external resources:
- Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python – from Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection, offspring of Wikipedia and probably the easiest introduction of all.
- Python Tutorial by Guido van Rossum – written by the father of Python
- Dive Into Python by Mark Pilgrim – maybe not so dry as the one above and better suited for beginners
- Google I/O: Painless Python Part 1 / Part 2 – talk introducing Python