Skip Cave wrote: > The training wheels vocabulary should be designed for the total newbie, > who sees a J expression somewhere, and goes to this TW vocabulary to > analyze that expression. The only thing that newbie should need to know > to use the TW vocabulary, is that J primitive symbols can be one or two > ASCII characters. Hopefully, that should allow the newbie to click on > the symbol they are interested in, and have its' function explained, > assuming no prior knowledge about J. ...
AMEN!!! My undergraduate degree is in education. YOU understand beginners! Teaching a topic is different than knowing and using it. (From reading several of Ken Iverson's "educational" writings, I can tell that, as a teacher, he knew this, too.) Great post! Harvey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
