Can you tell us a bit about your background? Did you program before? Which languages? Why was Italian not a language to learn for fun?
Welcome anyhow! One can have worse reasons to learn a language. R. E. Boss -----Original Message----- From: Programming <programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com> On Behalf Of joseph turco Sent: zaterdag 4 september 2021 17:01 To: programm...@jsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Hello, new programmer here! Thanks Bo, I am actually following the 'Learning J' book that is on the J website. its been good so far, but i've been getting a bit confused with the '&' verb and '@:' verb and what makes them different (they are verbs right?). Its funny because i was bored of math class in high school and was one of those kids who "skipped" a lot, but using a language like J has made me fascinated with what is possible. regards, Joseph Turco On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 7:06 AM 'Bo Jacoby' via Programming < programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > Welcome Joseph! > Being an old programmer I became fascinated by J. > There is a lot to learn, but some of it is unnecessary to the beginner. > The 3 operations, addition (+), multiplication (*), and exponentiation > (^), are sufficient for many computations. Having sign change (-) you > do not need subtraction (b-a)=(b+-a), and division > (b%a)=(*/(b,a)^1,-1), nor (%a)=(a^-1), (%:a)=(a^2^-1), (+:a)=(a*2), > (-:a)=(a*2^-1), (-.a)=(1+-a), (>:a)=(1+a), (*:a)=(a^2). > Note that expressions are evaluated from right to left: > (a^b^c)=(a^(b^c)) Have fun! > Bo. > Den fredag den 3. september 2021 20.24.11 CEST skrev joseph turco > < > italian.pepe...@gmail.com>: > > Hello all, > > I am a novice programmer and was looking for a language to learn for > fun. I tried APL but I couldn't get the keybindings to work on my > computer. I then found J from reddit and some google fu. It looks like > an awesome language, and i can't wait to learn more and make some fun > programs. I'd thought i'd pop in and say hello, so hi! > > regards, > > Joseph TUrco > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
