Nevertheless, given that your class is called Numerical and Computational Methods Based on Mathematica I think these defects won't impact your learning.

I will describe three of them, but bear in mind that some might be slow or have some limitations. In the past it was impossible: you either paid for Mathematica or illegally cracked it, but nowadays there are more ways. Although I am a very happy SageMath user, I've been curious to find out what the options for Mathematica are. There is a third one, which is using Mathematica (or the Wolfram Language) legally for free. However, I think there is a false dilemma in your question: That is really bad and I know it happens also in my country (Italy). While it is true that software cracking is inappropriate and even illegal, almost everyone around me uses cracked software From my understanding, the Wolfram Engine implements the Wolfram Language and is the very kernel of Mathematica, so this is basically a free full version of Mathematica, just without the notebook interface. I feel obliged to mention that now everyone can download the Free Wolfram Engine for Developers. So what should I do? Having a talk with my teacher or simply quitting this course?įinally, I've decided to quit this course, because I think I can gain the same knowledge by learning Mathics, a free software recommended by some answers below. As far as I know, nobody in the rest of our class refuse to crack and install the software. While it is true that software cracking is inappropriate and even illegal, almost everyone around me uses cracked softwares(such as PS, AE.). However, I just don't want to use cracked softwares. On the first lesson of this course, the teacher told us how to crack this software, and asked us to have Mathematica 11.0 installed on our computers by this Wednesday.

I'm taking a course named Numerical and Computational Methods Based on Mathematica (Or in Chinese: '基于Mathematica的数值计算方法'), but Wolfram Mathematica is a bit expensive for me to afford.

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