Online Help For Maple

Here are several online sources of help for getting started with Maple. They are listed in what I think is a decreasing order of usefulness. The first three should get you started pretty well. The site Maple V bilingual - MapleArchives/Documentations contains both introductory and advanced material on Maple that you can download and then print out.
Here is a one page summary of some basic Maple commands that you can print.
Maple itself comes with several forms of online documentation. Besides the Help Menu contained in the menu bar, Maple has a few "hidden" sources of help. For example, the Maple command
>tutorial();
will run a tutorial program that's built into Maple.
There are also several Maple worksheets that come with Maple that serve as introductions to the program. One of these worksheets is called quicktour.ms and it's on the network server at
w:\mapleV3\lib\quicktour.ms
but if you are at home, it's on your hard drive at
c:\mapleV3\lib\quicktour.ms
There are several expository worksheets in the subdirectory \mapleV3\examples\. Here are four that are good for starting out with:
In the Lab:
w:\mapleV3\examples\intro.ms
w:\mapleV3\examples\graphics.ms
w:\mapleV3\examples\symbolic.ms
w:\mapleV3\examples\int.ms
At home:
c:\mapleV3\examples\intro.ms
c:\mapleV3\examples\graphics.ms
c:\mapleV3\examples\symbolic.ms
c:\mapleV3\examples\int.ms

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Last modified on January 27, 1998.
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