Getting Started

You have already learned how to open up a worksheet. After Maple is opened, position the cursor arrow on the menu item File and click the left button once. You can select New to obtain a fresh, empty worksheet. Or you can select Open to choose an existing worksheet (the name will always end with .mws), either by double clicking on the name or by selecting the name and then Load. Once in a worksheet the current location is marked by a vertical bar. You can move around by moving the mouse and then clicking the left button once, by using the arrow keys, or by using the scroll bar up and down arrows on the right side of this window followed by finer adjustment with the mouse. A command (marked by the > symbol with words in bright red) is executed by positioning the cursor anywhere on the desired line and pressing the return key. Briefly: use the mouse to position yourself, and the return key to actually do something.

It is probably a good idea to begin EVERY worksheet that you create with the following two commands.

> restart;

> with(plots):

Note for Math 242 (Differential Equations)