The bookmarks list is a list of links to pages you've been to before. Keeping a bookmarks list allows you to revisit your favorite pages quickly. To make a bookmark for the page you are currently viewing, go to the Bookmarks pull-down menu and select Add Bookmark . This creates an entry in your bookmarks list. To go back to that page, just pull down the Bookmarks menu and select the entry in the list that connects to that page.
Maple is a mathematical computation and visualization package.
To access Maple, click on the maple leaf on the CDE console. While this can be useful for programming, you will only need the X-windows version of Maple for this class. If you accidentally type maple , the quit command will get you out. You'll use Maple extensively in the paradigms to visualize functions and solve equations. Maple has a very nice graphical interface and excellent graphical visualization tool.