Thanks to everybody for the thumbs up. I would feel honoured to be able to contribute to the jsoftware site. But I guess that things need to be tidied up a bit (or a lot?) on my end, before being ready for uploading to your main site.
Anyway, I have dumped a few more draft pages ( https://arnabc74.github.io/jsoft/) and rectified the mistake that Raul pointed out. Though there are still loose ends...too many of them. Comments, advice and suggestions are always welcome. Thanks and regards, Arnab On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:58 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Currently, it looks like https://arnabc74.github.io/jsoft/j2.html has > somehow been truncated (or, at least, it seems to end with an > incomplete sentence). > > But I suppose these pages are still drafts? After all "It is still > growing."... > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:51 AM Arnab Chakraborty <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > While teaching numerical analysis using J for half a semester (then > > COVID started), I have amassed some J code chunks that do something > useful, > > while avoiding J magic as much as possible. I thought I would turn them > > into a simple J tutorial that might benefit other newcomers like myself. > > Though I was hooked(!) by the wow-factor of J, I continued to wonder for > a > > long time as to why I should learn J. What benefit does it give me other > > than writing code that is one tenth the size of a program in another > > language (and takes about 20 times more time to write and debug)? > Finally, > > I think I have found an answer that I can explain to a beginner in a few > > words. > > > > My tutorial is written from that perspective. It would be great if the > > experts in this forum could please take a quick look at the tutorial and > > tell me if my approach would do more harm than good to newcomers. > > > > The tutorial is at > > > > https://arnabc74.github.io/jsoft/ > > > > It is still growing. > > > > Thanks and regards, > > > > Arnab > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
