Raul, I must admit your theory is good. In about 1968 or 1969 I taught APL in high school using two terminals connected the mainframe at IBM Watson Research Center. Look at him now! Like you he moved to J. It is he best there is at the moment.
However, the majority of teachers at the elementary level are women. Count the women at the recent J conference. Name 10 women (or even men) who are current promoters of APL of J in grades 1-12. Vin Granell was an amazement to the APL community in those days. He was the pied piper of educators. But there must be some mature force that is initiating something until it catches on. However, I do think the day will come. I cringe when I think back to how things were in the early days. I put the two terminals in a small lab between two math classrooms. After a short time students got interested, then rather addicted. I would leave at the end of the day maybe an hour after the school day. It seemed OK to leave small bunches of students continuing to use the terminals. The custodians would lock the rooms when they left. I can't imagine doing that today. But my point is that it working together and figuring things out together that was the key. So, can you build me my little tableb ? Linda -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raul Miller Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 6:19 AM To: Beta forum Subject: Re: [Jbeta] Here's what's needed to win the first grade teachers. Personally, I'd be more interested in winning students than in winning teachers. That said, Vin Grannell had a good part of the LACC campus using APL, simply by solving problems which needed solved. So that's the model I'd follow, for teachers - solve problems for them. (I was one of his bigger failures, since I didn't stick with proper APL but favored J. But I have him to thank.) Thanks, -- Raul On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Linda Alvord <[email protected]> wrote: > What if the teacjer could "hand craft" their worksheets for a class or > individualize them for specific students: > > (>:8?8)+ table (>:8?8) > --T----------------------┐ > │+│1 7 2 3 5 4 6 8│ > +-+----------------------+ > │8│9 15 10 11 13 12 14 16│ > │7│8 14 9 10 12 11 13 15│ > │3│4 10 5 6 8 7 9 11│ > │2│3 9 4 5 7 6 8 10│ > │1│2 8 3 4 6 5 7 9│ > │6│7 13 8 9 11 10 12 14│ > │5│6 12 7 8 10 9 11 13│ > │4│5 11 6 7 9 8 10 12│ > L-+----------------------- > > > Here's what is needed to win the teachers. Something named btable or > tableb which will keep the headings and the verb, but would be blank. Boxes > are needed to keep the writing confined. > > The answer lies in here somewhere: > > 2 3 $ <'' > -TT┐ > ││││ > ++++ > ││││ > L++- > 2 3 $ <' ' > --T-T-┐ > │ │ │ │ > +-+-+-+ > │ │ │ │ > L-+-+-- > 2 3 $ <' ' > ---T--T--┐ > │ │ │ │ > +--+--+--+ > │ │ │ │ > L--+--+--- > table > 1 : (':'; '(((#~LF-.@e.])5!:5<''u'');,.y),.({.;}.)":x,y u/x')~ > > If it could land in names_z_ that would be great. > > Linda > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
