Proposals for Slides

[hanspi42]

I have also looked at the latest slides now.

The slide numbers are clashing with the lower green border. Maybe you want to try adding one line,

\usepackage{hyperref}
\setbeamertemplate{footline}[frame number]

I would insert an empty line after the subtitle "Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Funding"

What is missing a bit is something motivational or learning-goal oriented, like "when you walk out of this tutorial, you will be able to ..." or "you will know ...", maybe even before "What is SymPy". It is my experience at conferences that attendants will be much more present if the talk or tutorial starts with something engaging. I would fear that, since everyone might have heard of SymPy already, some people will start checking E-Mails when "What is SymPy?" comes as the first slide with content.

You will later mention blackboards, so you could, e.g., insert the free-to-use photo https://unsplash.com/de/fotos/gYrYa37fAKI as slide 2 and use just 30 seconds to tell people how your university life might have been less error prone if you'd had SymPy preventing all the small mistakes you made that stacked up to gettting lower marks or losing lots of time during your PhD, whatever is true for you. The underlying story "I suffered, but thanks to SymPy, you needn't suffer too" often works well in capturing people's interest and giving them the intitial idea "in the next hour I will learn stuff that makes my life easier".

I also think that "rewrite" could be mentioned already on slide 3 "SymPy example", my students always get glowing eyes when they see stuff like

cos(x).rewrite(exp)
(exp(I*x)+exp(-I*x)).rewrite(sin)

because they totally see how stuff like that would have been useful in their analysis lectures.

By the way, will this come in 06-Advanced-Expression-Manipulation?

[asmeurer]

I pushed a fix for the page numbers, and I added a "use-cases" slide. The intro slides are meant to be pretty quick, just a couple of slides for ~10 minutes.

The rewrite example isn't present now, but it would be something to show in the simplification notebook (the advanced manipulation notebook is more about how to use .args).

I also realized that we should include slides about ourselves. I added a slide for me. @sylee957 can you add a short bio to your slide?

[sylee957]

Your bio get clipped though.

[hanspi42]

I lile the use cases slide!