Computing with Maple

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Summary: learn programming with Maple?!
Review: An intriguing, unorthodox approach to teaching programming. Wright uses Maple, a well known symbolic math package that has been around for over 10 years. He takes a recent version and uses it in the book as a programming language in its own right. We see descriptions of all the standard commands in any such language - if-else, loops etc. Logically complete as a computational language.

With the added bonus of teaching symbolic algebra.