MuPAD ... Questionnaire


Preface

The following form will give us help for the further development of MuPAD. It further offers to you the possibility to take part and to influence the development of MuPAD.

We would be glad if you support us by giving answers to some of the following questions. We insure that your answers will be treated annonymousely!

Thanks!

The MuPAD development team


About the Person

  1. What kind of profession do you have? Especially, do you take part on research, education or something else?

  2. What is your main task?

  3. What is your experience of that task?
    Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert

  4. What are your favourite languages? (Check all that apply)
    German English Franch Spain

  5. What is your experience in
    - the use of numerical mathematical software?
    Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert
    What is your favourite software tool?
    - the use of symbolic mathematical software?
    Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert
    What is your favourite software tool?
    - the use of MuPAD?
    Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert

About MuPAD

  1. How do you got to know MuPAD?
    Newsgroups via World Wide Web
    Magazines via Teaching
    If none of these, please specify it:

  2. Why do you use MuPAD? (Check all that apply)
    Research Education Commercial Personal
    If none of these, please specify it:

  3. How did you learn to use MuPAD ? (Check all that apply)
    from the manual
    from the tutorial
    from the online help
    from demo documents
    from own experiments
    from demonstration by other people
    other
    If none of these, please specify it:

  4. Please rate the difficulty of learning MuPAD:
    Easy - - - - - - - Hard

  5. Is the help satisfactory ?
    Poor - - - - - - - Good

  6. Pleae rate the quality of basic parts of MuPAD:
    - the mathematical concepts are
    Poor - - - - - - - Good

    - the grafic capabilities are
    Poor - - - - - - - Good

    - the user interfaces are
    Poor - - - - - - - Good

About hardware and operating system

  1. Which computer hardware and operating systems do you use ? (Check all that apply) Which is your favourite ? If you use other hardware/software than listed below, please specify it:

    Use .. Favorit .. computer hardware ....... oprating system
    ..... ..... DECstation .............. Ultrix 4.x
    ..... ..... HPstation ............... HP-UX 9.x
    ..... ..... IBM-RS6000 .............. AIX 3.x
    ..... ..... Sun-Sparc ............... Solaris 2.x
    ..... ..... Sun-Sparc ............... SunOS 4.1.x
    ..... ..... SGI-Indy ................ Irix 4.x
    ..... ..... SGI-Indy ................ Irix 5.x
    ..... ..... Apple Macintosh ......... System 7.x
    ..... ..... PC-AT ................... FreeBSD
    ..... ..... PC-AT ................... Linux
    ..... ..... PC-AT ................... NetBSD
    ..... ..... PC-AT ................... Solaris-x86
    ..... ..... PC-AT ................... Windows 3.1
    ..... .....

  2. If you are using X11. Which windowing system and window manager do you use ? (Check all that apply) Which is your favourite ?

    Use .. Favorit .. windowing system ....... window manager
    ..... ..... X11R5 .................. twm/fwm/fvwm
    ..... ..... X11R6 .................. twm/fwm/fvwm
    ..... ..... Motif-1.2 .............. fwm/fvwm
    ..... ..... Motif-2.x .............. fwm/fvwm
    ..... ..... OpenWindows/XView ...... olwm/olvwm
    ..... .....


Optional

  1. Any further comments are welcome, please use the following textfield.

or it to MuPAD-Webmaster@uni-paderborn.de .

Author: MuPAD-Webmaster
Last updated: 10. Aug. 1995