Skip Cave wrote: > The underlying issue here is that most people coming to J for the > first time don't necessarily want to read a 200-page tutorial about > the language. ... This novice reference would be designed for random > access, as opposed to a sequential reading such as the > aforementioned tutorials. A novice shouldn't have to search trough > multiple tutorial books looking for a tutorial explanation of a > specific function. That is what references are for. In this case > however, the reference is also a tutorial. Dan Bron's suggestion is > to provide a wiki page for each function, with a basic explanation > and examples. ... > > Does this make sense?
MOST CERTAINLY! As a J newbie with a background in education (elementary school), this is the same thing that I have pled for in several of my past messages. About a year and a half ago I started doing a little bit here and there along this line (onine web pages) for myself and other non-J-literate techie people in my profession at the time (librarianship). I would refer you to these efforts, but, unfortunately, after I retired this past summer, my library employer took down the web pages I had developed for the library profession over several years related to computer programming for library uses. I had previously obtained permission to make them available elsewhere, and I'm currently planning to do so on Google Sites. But that all takes time... (The non-J materials are archived in the WaybackMachine, but, for whatever reason, the Internet Archive didn't scan that part of the Internet universe for the past year or two, so my newer J pages never got archived.) Harvey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
