I have been noticing your efforts with jhs and highlighting and coloring. I think it would be good if you could write up a page on the primitives, tools, references, whatever else you find most useful here. It will also be interesting to see how your work evolves.
Thanks, -- Raul On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:57 AM, robert therriault <[email protected]> wrote: > Good ideas Raul, > > I like the purpose driven approach of using J in a practical environment. I > also think that the current labs provide a much more powerful and interactive > way to allow learners to explore new concepts. As I think of areas to explore > in the process of communicating J, I am leaning towards developing the lab as > a medium for my message. > > Also, I have been thinking that the way we display the language could have a > significant effect on the amount of documentation that the user requires. The > different options of the 5!: foreign conjunction [1] are a beginning to this, > but in the current html5 environment of JHS with tools such as CSS and SVG we > may be able to make the relationships between the different entities even > more obvious. If the user is reminded of the function at every turn through > design of the display, many areas that are hard to grasp may become much more > intuitive. My experiments in the shape and type display may serve as examples > of this [2], but could be extended to the ways that tacit verbs could be > represented. > > Cheers, bob > > [1] http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dx005.htm > [2] > http://bobtherriault.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/an-update-on-display-shapes-and-types-on-jhs/ > > On Apr 30, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But perhaps writing textbooks on interesting subjects could be a more >> useful investment of time. For example, I would really like to see a >> textbook on finite element analysis which centered around using J to >> develop the requisite techniques. I would also like to see one written on >> antenna theory. I remember in college doing some interesting work with >> x-ray analysis of crystals using APL, and that was with computers far less >> capable than what we have nowadays, and APL was far less capable than J is >> nowadays. >> >> So it seems like it really ought to be straightforward to write decent >> treatments of engineering topics - topics related to making things - in J. >> There's also a need for other things, of course, but some things seem just >> so obvious that they are aching for attention. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
