SageMath - Getting Help With Sage When You're Stuck

Опубликовано: 13 Март 2026
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How to get help with SageMath (Sage) - internally using SageMath's built-in features, from online resources, and from forums. Time stamps below:

Using the "?" to get an explanation - 1:05
Using the "??" to get the source code - 2:50
Using "help()" to get help - 3:54
Using "python_help()" to get help with Python - 5:24
Using the "Tab" key on your keyboard to fill in blanks and save time - 7:15
Using CoCalc's Snippets (pre-written code) - 8:34
SageMath Wiki - 10:24
SageMath Quick Reference Guides - 10:47
SageMath.org - 11:42
Sage for Undergraduates by Prof. Gregory Bard - 12:08 (http://gregorybard.com/books.html)
Mathematical Computation with Sage by -Paul Zimmermann, Alexandre Casamayou, et al - 12:48 (http://dl.lateralis.org/public/sagebo...)
Other books - 13:10
Getting help from a human being (https://ask.sagemath.org/questions/,   / sagemath  ) - 14:10

This video uses SageMath 9.1 from https://cocalc.com/. SageMath can also be downloaded directly from https://www.sagemath.org/. Other resources in this video:

SageMath Wiki: https://wiki.sagemath.org/

SageMath Quick Reference Cards: https://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref

Professor Gregory Bard's website: http://gregorybard.com/Sage.html and different ways to download his textbook Sage for Undergraduates is here: http://gregorybard.com/books.html.

Computational Mathematics with SageMath by Paul Zimmermann et al, can be downloaded in different formats here: http://sagebook.gforge.inria.fr/engli... and is available in English as a PDF here: http://dl.lateralis.org/public/sagebo....

Forums to try to get a human response: https://ask.sagemath.org/questions/ and   / sagemath  .

Let us all know of any additional tips and resources in the comments.