If you'd like to see what a good quick demo looks like, done by one guy with no fancy production values -- and of a language/system having a state-of-the-art user interface, take a look at either of the following:
http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/search.php?Search=app%20minute&x=-879&y=-139&video=728 http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/video.php?channel=86&video=869 On 14 Feb 2014 19:00:45 -0500, Henry Rich <henryhr...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > As Ian [Clark] observed, a newcomer's first 5 minutes with J will be decisive > in > establishing their attitude towards the language. As things stand, it > takes a serious geek to take a shine to J in 5 minutes. Just between us > geeks, I wish there were more of us, but that's not the way to bet. > > No, we need a snappy demo: an application that everyone can relate to, > showing how we can code something meaningful and get a pretty display in > under 5 minutes. Ideally it should be a YouTube video, with an > accompanying Lab so the interested user can reproduce the results. —— Murray Eisenberg mur...@math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 240 246-7240 (H) University of Massachusetts 710 North Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01003-9305 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
