I love that quote Catherine, Going back to your frustration at the 'hiding' of the Conjugate (+) operation in vectors and matrices, I realized last night that the solution may not be in showing the way the individual instances of Conjugate work on each atom of a matrix, but by using more scalar examples initially to show a wider range of inputs and outputs for Conjugate.
Today, i'll work at putting together a 'Club Mix' of the shorter animation. It'll have more examples, be larger and run a little longer. This might be a bridge between the short reference version and the longer tutorial version that may include interaction and/or voice-over. If both versions were kept on the reference page the user would have a choice between a quick check, or a more extended description. Cheers, bob On -Mar11-2010, at -Mar11-20104:14 PM, Catherine Lathwell wrote: > To quote Ken, when I first talked to him about the doc project... "Maybe all > that Art School is good for something after all!" :) > > shhhhhh.... don't tell I didn't know how J does minus! :) > > C > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Catherine - APL uses the same character for the same thing - it's just >> positioned differently. >> >> BTW - your feedback is particularly valuable - please continue... >> >> Regards, >> >> Devon >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Catherine Lathwell <[email protected] >>> wrote: >> >>> >>> What's the deal with the _ character? Is this how J works these days? >> I'm >>> not really up on the J vocabulary, so I didn't understand conjugate >> before >>> this... so it took me a couple of runs to figure out that it's *minus >> *you >>> mean. My first few rounds, I was scratching my head trying to figure out >>> what the heck you need an underscore in your number for. >>> >>> ... >> >> -- >> Devon McCormick, CFA >> ^me^ at acm. >> org is my >> preferred e-mail >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > > > -- > Catherine Lathwell > http://www.aprogramminglanguage.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
