> From: Ian Clark <earthspo...@googlemail.com> > > > One winning instructional strategy, including Gilman and Rose, > > is telling a story for each piece of material. Such stories, > > among other things, may revolve around exo-paradigms. > > When I used to program in FORTH (sign of a mis-spent youth) one > well-beloved primer in the FORTH community was illustrated with > engaging but instructive cartoons. Thus the standard word SWOP was a > little two-headed dragon that did what you'd guess with objects on the > stack. Can anyone remember the book and remind me of its title?
Starting FORTH, by Leo Brodie http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/sf2/sf2.html This is fun stuff all right. And a good read for a vacation. What I was thinking for APL/J for a long time was an interactive or animated illustrator of the operations, especially those that manipulate multidimensional and nested structures. > I know someone (http://www.leelamaria.com/) who could do us a wodge of > cartoons like that. Shall I try to get them interested? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
