I've had somewhat bad experience with o. verb - question "why in the world a sinusoidal calculation looks like 1 o. 0.7" took long and distracted quite a bit. OTOH, I felt I need to show J as a calculator - a good starting point - so elementary functions are kind of a must.
Don't let 'em distract you. A better occurance was when my friend, familiar with APL for long time but not knowing J at all, proposed to make a simple (n^2, IIRC) algorithm for finding prime numbers. It was created during a short chat session, and was probably shorter than audience expected. So may be show them several successful samples from different areas. I guess I should focus more on Iverson's point of notation as a tool of thought. This important point should somehow be conveyed. Hmmm. Examples may be taylored for that. --- On Fri, 7/29/11, EelVex <[email protected]> wrote: > From: EelVex <[email protected]> > Subject: [Jprogramming] I'll give a talk on J programming. Any ideas? > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Friday, July 29, 2011, 2:08 PM > I'm about to give a talk on J > programming. I plan it to be about 30minutes > long. The audience is mixed but most have a decent > exposure > to C++, Java and/or Python. > > Any suggestions on: > * where to focus > * how to present J > * what to avoid > ? > > Thanks, > eelvex > :) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
