Thanks Raul,
I always find the greatest challenge is to identify the audience. You are right
that in this case I assumed an advanced beginner who would know some of the
fundamentals, but perhaps not the specifics of the Head verb.
I am more intrigued by your identification of an audience that may be more
interested in some of the quirks of the language than the basics. Do you think
that this approach would have an audience? It is certainly a niche that has not
been otherwise filled and to be honest I am not sure that I have enough
knowledge to dig up and understand those idiosyncrasies, but I would welcome
input.
Another approach that I could take is to make some foundational videos that
explain some terminology such as items, frame or rank and have those accessible
as links in the video when those terms come up. I do wonder if having the
viewer dive down the rat holes as new information becomes important is the best
way to transmit information, but I suppose that if it is only done a few times
then it would safely be ignored and would not disrupt the flow of the video too
much. In any case, if you have more specific thoughts on refining my approach I
welcome them.
I suppose what I am doing with these videos is trying to identify a use for
these tools.
Cheers, bob
> On May 21, 2019, at 2:19 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would be tempted to explain in terms of 0 { y and then backtrack and
> show that 0 { 1 {. y is what you need to deal with empties (and is
> equivalent in all other contexts).
>
> Related is that you've assumed your audience knows what 'item" and
> 'fill' means in the context of J - this seems like a reasonable
> assumption, but for that audience, it's likely that the {. monad would
> be review of mostly understood concepts, and mixing things up a bit
> might help hold interest.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
>
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 5:08 PM 'robert therriault' via Programming
> <programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I just put up a video on youtube https://youtu.be/tAciwJSiXh4 illustrating
>> the behaviour of the Head Monadic verb based on the Nuvoc entry.
>>
>> Let me know if you think it works and/or how badly it misses the mark.
>>
>> Thank you to all who have contributed to and organized Nuvoc
>> https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc . It is a very valuable resource.
>>
>> Cheers, bob
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