Please link NuVoc, and Getting Started, to this.
Henry Rich
On 9/2/2014 12:36 PM, Skip Cave wrote:
Devon, nice job of putting together a reduced set of primitives for rhe
beginner. The only issue I see is the name. As a beginner, I would never
think to find a set of most-commonly-used primitives under the name "J
Kernel" That actually sounds like a discussion of the internals of J, which
is what I thought when I read the subject of your email. I doubt that a
beginner would check out a page with that label. A title like "J's Basic
Commands for Beginners" or equivalent, would be more likely to attract the
intended audience.
Skp
Skip Cave
Cave Consulting LLC
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
Based on some feedback from Greg Borota last year on his experiences
learning J, I've put together a page on the J Wiki -
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DevonMcCormick/JKernel - that has a few
selected things from J on which a beginner can concentrate to avoid being
overwhelmed by the language in full.
It's a pretty bare minimum and I couldn't find a good link that explains
J's use of single quote for quoted strings but everyone should feel free to
add to it - sparingly, as it's supposed to be a reduced set of the
language.
It might make sense to leave the existing page much as it is and to think
about a 2nd tier of slightly more advanced verbs and such. There were good
suggestions in the original discussion -
http://jsoftware.2058.n7.nabble.com/Learning-J-language-initial-thoughts-td52786.html#a52793
- that I elided as I consider them more than the bare minimum (things like
rank modifiers and logic verbs).
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Devon McCormick, CFA
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