What if we leveraged the 'calculator on steroids' aspect of J? There are lots of students who would benefit from an experimental approach to math that comes with using J.
You show them an IDE, do a few calculations, tease them with the way you can combine functions, and point them towards 'getting started' documentation. Programming as such could come later, but this might be a quick way into wanting to do more. 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
