Thomas,, J is a language for communicating with a computer. So just as you might approach any language, you need to learn some words. Like a Spanish to English dictionary, you need to understand the new words. I would suggest going often to the "Vocabulary". Start by taking definitions that do things you want ro do and analyze each word to see how it is used. It may seem slow, but as your vocabulary increases you will find it gets easier. After short sentences become easier you will begin to create your own "verbs" which you are free to name as you wish.
Also ask questions when something seems like it should be simple, but you don't understand it. Enjoy the process! Linda -----Original Message----- From: Programming <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Thomas Bulka Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2018 7:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Jprogramming] J naming conventions Hello Forum, I recently started programming in J (by now mainly for the purpose of educating myself) and I'm impressed by the terseness that can be achieved in expressing your ideas. However, being still a beginner, I'm not sure whether there are well established naming conventions among the J community. For instance: How are verbs/variables/etc. named in an idiomatic way (camelCase? under_scores? What about case?)? Browsing through available example source code did not yet give me a clear intuition of how these things are handled in the J community. If there are any established conventions, I would very much appreciate any link to the respective documentation. Regards, Thomas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsoftware.com%2Fforums.htm&data=02%7C01%7C%7C7cb4e7855651403f252008d6585545e1%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636793520598082108&sdata=%2FtwNxBZhNFAWA1ZqRyTOD3BtkieJwFkmF1kXZ5fGEdo%3D&reserved=0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
