A Maple window will open. Underneath the row of menu buttons is the Tool Bar , most of which are shortcuts to menu commands. Directly below the Tool Bar is the Context Bar , which consists of more buttons which are shortcuts to menu commands. If you place the mouse pointer on any of these buttons and hold down the left mouse button, a rough idea of what the button does will appear at the bottom of your Maple window.
Maple carries out the command and prints a response.
Note that you must type a semicolon after each Maple command, to indicate that you have finished entering the command. Since you will not be given a Maple manual, you should learn to use Maple by using the built in Help facility. A window will open describing the basic structure of the command and giving examples of its use. To close this window when you have finished with it, click the left mouse button on the rectangle in the upper left corner of the window and then drag the mouse pointer down, releasing the button when Close is highlighted. We shall refer to this process as choosing Topic Search from the Help menu.