Sage - Help and Support

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Help and Support

The Sage standard documentation:

Tutorial (Printed & Bound), PDF — information for beginners, recommended
Constructions (Printed & Bound), PDF — describes how to explain specific mathematical objects to Sage
Developer's Guide (Printed & Bound), PDF — guidelines for current and prospective Sage developers
Reference Manual, PDF — details about built-in functions
A Tour of Sage, PDF — a brief tour of some of Sage's features

Sage en quelques mots (Français), PDF

Installation Guide, PDF — helps you install Sage (download)
Numerical Sage, PDF — how to do numerical computing with Sage
Explicit Methods in Number Theory, PDF — computing with number fields and modular forms

You can download the standard documentation as a compressed file.

Format	Packed as .zip	Packed as .tar.bz2
HTML	download (13 MB)	download (5.9 MB)
PDF	download (14 MB)	download (13 MB)
HTML+PDF	download (26 MB)	download (19 MB)

Further resources to learn more about Sage:

Quick Reference Cards — overview of important functions
Screencasts — videos explaining how Sage works
Exploring Mathematics with Sage by Paul Lutus — overview of using Sage in various areas of applied mathematics
Sage for Newbies — book by T. Kosan
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
Books — a collection of online books explaining mathematics (calculus, linear algebra, number theory, etc.) using Sage
Sage and Cython: A Brief Introduction by Marshall Hampton — a brief introduction to Sage focusing on Cython
Number Theory and the RSA Public Key Cryptosystem by Minh Van Nguyen — using Sage to study elementary number theory and the RSA public key cryptosystem
Linear Programming in Sage by Nathann Cohen — There are many very good solvers around and they are now available in Sage.
Sage and Graph Theory by Nathann Cohen — Sage will not solve your graph problems in polynomial time. But everything that is already written, YOU do not have to write it again!
Linear Error-Correcting Codes by David Joyner and Robert Miller — introduces some of Sage's functionality in the theory of error-correcting codes
Group Theory and Sage: A Primer by Rob Beezer — a compilation of Sage commands useful for a student studying group theory for the first time
Planet Sage Blogs — a collection of blogs by Sage users and developers
Search — an online search interface indexing Sage documentation, discussion groups, various web resources, blogs and various other places on the web

Discussion groups:

sage-support — this discussion group is for all sorts of general questions or problems
sage-edu — this group discusses issues regarding Sage in education
IRC help channel — directly connects you to an online chat room

Understanding Python is very important for using the full power of Sage, because Python is the interface and primary programming language of Sage. 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
Building Skills in Python — suitable for people who are already comfortable with programming