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\centerline{Mathematics 136 -- Calculus 2}
\centerline{General Information on Maple in HA 136}
\centerline{September 19, 2016}
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{\bf Launching Maple}
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To get into Maple, you will need to follow this process.
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\item{1)}  When you start a session,
you should see login window for your username
and password for the campus network.  (If the a desktop with icons, etc. is showing, that means
previous user has probably not logged off. Start/Log Out to terminate their session and start afresh.)  
Enter your username and password.  (This will be the same
as on the rest of the campus network.)
\item{2)}  You should now see the Windows desktop.  
Find the Maple 2015 shortcut
there and highlight that option to launch Maple. 
\item{3)}  After a few more seconds you should see a new 
Maple 2015 window, with a ``subwindow'' marked
Untitled (1) opened inside it.  The Untitled (1) window is a 
blank {\it Maple worksheet\/}.  

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{\bf Maple Worksheets}
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Worksheets are integrated documents where any or all of the following can 
be done: 
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\itemitem{a)} you can type in commands from the keyboard 
to ask Maple to perform many different kinds of calculations, 
\itemitem{b)} Maple will generate output (numerical values,
symbolic formulas, and graphics), 
\itemitem{c)} you can modify commands, generating new output,
in our session today.    
\itemitem{d)} you can enter text to annotate and explain the 
results of computations.
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Take a few seconds and notice the 
features of this window -- especially
the ``tool bar'' across the top with the icons for various operations, 
the ``scroll bar'' on the right that you can use to move around 
within the worksheet, to see previous input and output lines, the 
menus of symbols on the left, etc. 
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{\bf Input and Text Regions in a Worksheet\/}
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Space for new input will be generated automatically at the 
bottom of a worksheet each time you enter a command and
execute it at the end of a worksheet in progress.  
You can also insert text and input regions by using
the Insert pulldown menu from the tool bar in the Maple
window.  
  
Maple worksheets can contain text for explanation and
comments (and answers to questions on lab assignments!)
as well as commands and output.  

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{\bf Saving and Reloading your Maple Worksheets}
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When you begin working on a
worksheet, you will want to {\it save your work\/} every
once in a while in case a computer problem develops, or in case
you need more than one lab session to complete the work you are
doing.  This can be done by saving to the desktop as you go along, then 
uploading the file to your Google drive ({\tt drive.google.com})
when you are done.  To start working again on the file, you 
can download to the lab computer and read the file back into
Maple.    Follow these directions:
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\item{1)} In Maple, select the SAVE option from the FILE
pull-down menu or press the toolbar icon that looks like a diskette.
\item{3)} If you are saving your work for the first time, 
you will see a SAVE AS dialog box.  
A good choice would be something like {\it LabDay1\/} for a first
lab session.  Then click the 
Save button.  Maple will save the file with the full
name {\it LabDay1.mws} on the desktop.  You only need
to type in the filename in once in a session.  Subsequent saves 
(i.e. FILE/SAVE or clicking the diskette toolbar icon) just update 
the file.
\item{4)}  When you have the worksheet saved as you want it,
you can exit Maple, or continue working.  
\item{5)}  To update the worksheet further in a later session,
get back into Maple as above, and
read the worksheet back into Maple using the OPEN
option from the FILE Menu or the ``opening folder'' toolbar button.  
 Maple will prompt you as above for the
name of the worksheet with a dialog box very like the SAVE AS
box described above.  
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{\bf Printing in HA 136}
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To print a Maple worksheet in HA 136, click the toolbar icon that looks
like a printer, and press OK on the PRINT dialog box (the settings
should be set up correctly to print automatically).  Your 
output should appear shortly on the printer at the side of the lab. 
If you have problems, or if the printer runs out of paper, come and 
get me or another math faculty member for help.
(If several print jobs are sent at the same time, you may need 
to wait a short time.)
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{\bf Getting Out}
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When you leave, quit the Maple window (FILE/EXIT), and log off the 
campus network (Start/Log Out).
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