Young programmers still covers a lot of ground, but I guess we have limited our target population to something in the millions (not billions).
Still, we could always make a bunch of them, run them past some people, see what they think, and then try again. But beware that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law suggests that many of our attempts at attracting people will be unappealing to most of them. Thanks, -- Raul On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:51 PM, robert therriault <bobtherria...@mac.com>wrote: > Hi Henry and Raul, > > I think that the audience being young programmers is a good start towards > the issues that Raul raises. As an additional challenge, I think that we > would want to use an example that is user friendly once their interest has > been attracted. There are some areas of J that have more overhanging > learning curves than others :) I don't think we would want to get them > interested and then send them into the teeth of image processing unless we > also provided a good road map. > > Cheers, bob > > On Feb 15, 2014, at 9:36 AM, Henry Rich <henryhr...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > > > My idea about that is, we need to appeal to young programmers. The more > experience people have with scalar languages, the less able they are to > learn J. The more experience they have with other languages in a class > with J, the less they need to learn J. > > > > The application needs to be of obvious interest to a non-mathematical, > non-financial user. My target would be a scientist/engineer/IT person who > has a computation to perform and no canned package to do it, so they have > to write a little code. > > > > Henry Rich > > > > On 2/15/2014 12:30 PM, Raul Miller wrote: > >> Perhaps it is also worth noting that we are not going to impress > everyone, > >> nor should we want to. > >> > >> J currently caters to some high powered wallstreet types, high quality > >> engineering types and so on. But it's hardly the only language in use > for > >> any of those categories. > >> > >> ... anyways we should probably think a bit about qualities of the sort > of > >> people we think we want to attract with this video (or videos, since we > >> might want to attract different kinds of people). > >> > >> I'd also be tempted to enlist Cathrine Lathwell's advice on video > creation > >> - she has more than a little relevant experience. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
