Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: WIMS, a web math educational software for Linux]

[Jan Hlavacek <jhlavacek@sf.edu>]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 08:28:25AM -0400, Doug Loss wrote:
> Here's a message from XIAO Gang, the author of WIMS.  This may be of
> interest to a good number of us.  Please take a look at it.  And if you have
> any observations about it, please mention them here and also send them
> directly to the author, as he or she isn't on the seul-edu mailing list.

I definitely recommend to include this on our list.  I have been looking
for something like this for quite a while.  I know that there is a
couple of commercial servers like this, I think one from Addison-Wesley
or some other publishing house,  but WIMS is wonderful.  I installed it
last week,  and am pleased to say that it installed as a breeze on a
Debian Slink system.  I have VERY limited resources, our campus is all
Microsoft,  as far as I can tell, the only Linux machine on campus is my
desktop computer, a 120MHz pentium with 16MB of memory, and almost full
harddisk,  but WIMS run on that.  I will have to play with it some more
to see exactly how to use it in our curriculum,  but I can already see
that it will be very useful. 

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