Thanks for bringing this up-to-date, Cliff. Eager for Part 2. This has long been on my bucket-list for serious study, of the sort I last gave to "At Play With J" by J doyen Gene McDonnell. If I had a month to do absolutely nothing in, this is how I'd fill it.
Come the day! Seriously though, when I've done so, I'll write you a review. On Lulu.com. Better still, on Amazon.com. In fact I don't know why the J community isn't falling over itself to write you reviews, because this is one of the most entertaining vehicles for promoting J itself, up there with APWJ, even if the reader isn't primarily interested in becoming a computer-graphics specialist. (I note with approval you're featuring Dissect.) @JCommunity – Here are the 2 links (because Cliff didn't give them)… http://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Visualization-Fourth-Clifford-Reiter/dp/1329873556/ http://www.lulu.com/shop/clifford-reiter/fractals-visualization-and-j-fourth-edition-part-1/paperback/product-22561871.html Don't be put off by the price. This is a must-have. I know what Lulu charges for a 4-color print book (viz 4 times the b/w cost) so Cliff is giving himself virtually no markup. So… write your review on Amazon.com, but buy it from Lulu because it's 40% cheaper there (rebating the book-trade markup – plus Lulu regularly does 25%-off offers, which covers the shipping). [Disclaimer: reviewer has bought his own copy.] On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Cliff Reiter <[email protected]> wrote: > I posted this in Jchat, but was encouraged to also post here. Apologies for > the overlap. > > Hello fellow Jer's, > I have released print and PDF versions of > Fractals, Visualization and J, Fourth edition, Part 1 > at lulu.com. Compared to the 3rd edition, there are several new sections, > fairly substantial reorganization and update of scripts to JQT 8.04 along > with the wordsmithing inspired by feedback from teaching a few times with > it. > The table of contents for 4th ed. Part 1 and sample sections from each > chapter (and lulu links) can be found at: > http://webbox.lafayette.edu/~reiterc/j/fvj4/index.html > Note, I have left the 3rd edition as available at lulu since it works OK > with J6.02 (32bit) and is complete. So be alert to edition. Last year at > this time I thought 4th ed. Part 1 would be done by August '15. So Part 2 is > in the works but is at least several months away. > Best, Cliff > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
