I like it, Bob. The minimalism may arise from it being a first effort, but it shows it's neither necessary nor wise to over-egg the pudding.
Minor crits: could do with being sped up. Needs music. YouTube has a library of free soundtracks: you can just attach one for now. YouTube movies can be easily embedded in your own html file. Stefano & I have done it. They generate you an <object> to copy/paste. See source of http://www.maxclark.me.uk/undeadtree/interspex.htm for an example. But how to do it with MoinMoin? So... are you offering to do a 15 second movie for each J primitive? Ian On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:08 PM, bob therriault <bobtherria...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Oleg and Ian, > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODxv498p4ME > > This isn't about a specific function, but is an animation i put together to > explain why it is useful to organize information into arrays. I developed it > on keynote, but haven't yet put a soundtrack to it. It's not really high end, > but it wasn't too hard to put together either. Let me know if you have more > specific ideas for animations. > > Cheers, bob > > On -Feb1-2010, at -Feb1-201012:50 PM, Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > >>> 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
