bob, this is neat. Thanks for sharing. I have been thinking along these
lines as well. Your right window reminds me of a variable watch window. It
would be handy to automatically refresh the watch list whenever one of the
variables change. I'm not aware of anything out of the box that provides a
ho
Hi all,
I just put up a demo of what I have been hashing around adding media to labs in
the JHS environment. I am not sure that I will be going much further with this
in the lab environment on Eric's suggestion of looking into sp.ijs as a way to
provide the functionality of multiple media types
It might be interesting if fif would allow searches in jsoftware.
Possibly giving index to faq.
On 29 May 2014 14:09, "Björn Helgason" wrote:
> You could do faq to answer from different databases.
>
> Like:
>
> 'voc' faq 6 1
>
> gives info on function 6 and just rank
>
> 'voc' faq 13 2
>
> short
You could do faq to answer from different databases.
Like:
'voc' faq 6 1
gives info on function 6 and just rank
'voc' faq 13 2
short description on function 13
'nuvoc' faq 15 3
long description on function 15 from nuvoc
'voc' faq 17 4
examples for function 17
and so on
On 28 May 2014 16:4
I did something along these lines here:
http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/chat/2013-October/005401.html
Not faq, but pulling in dictionary entries for symbols. It would be useful
to update it for NuVoc and let a person search by name (e.g. 'dict floor')
too
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Bjö
It would be interesting to have a facility in J to send requests to
jsoftware and get automatic answers.
Lets say the verb would be running at the user.
The user would type:
faq 1
and get back an answer to the question:
1. What is J?
J is bla bla bla
and was created by bla bla bla
next quest
I agree that we must keep and improve the existing labs. There is too
much good and criitical material there. But if we have a better
infrastructure for new labs then the old will gradually move to it.
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Björn Helgason wrote:
> I do like the labs as is so using sp
Run JHS and check menu link|jhelp|sp (just a pointer to do sphelp).
sphelp NB. noun that documents sp stuff
The idea of managed script execution is an alternative to labs. But
having a script as an html document with tags makes it very easy to
include material in a script that is not just code
I do like the labs as is so using spx is a good idea but not change the
labs that are now.
Make new tutorial system using new features.
Not eliminate existing demos and labs.
I can see integrated video, helps, labs, demos, tutorials and have
different versions for beginners and advanced but in a
Thanks Eric,
I had not thought about spx as a replacement to the lab framework, in fact I
have not ventured into that part of the framework at all (aside from seeing it
as part of the ios when the ipad version came out). What would you recommend as
the quickest way to come up to speed on this?
To throw out other ideas, I've really enjoyed using ipython notebook
Here is an example notebook from someone else
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/agconti/kaggle-titanic/blob/master/Titanic.ipynb
And a random youtube video I found
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dLGQw9yFQ
Here's a similar
The labs were great in their time. Rather than recreate that wheel it
might be worthwhile to step back and look at the issues in current
light.
I think the labs structure is too restricted. I strongly favor the JHS
spx approach that lets you treat any script (or any text file) as a
lab. I think th
Environment specific stuff can be a hassle. Sometimes the best way to deal
with that is to just document what the environment needs.
That said, sometimes I wish I could have a dual server jhs/jqt (and I can
see, in my mind, how that would have to be architected to function - but
everyone has their
Well, I am looking at it and I will keep everyone posted if I make any
progress, but I really won't feel bad if someone else wanted to take it on (or
even better join in).
I am starting with the JHS system using Safari as my browser. Even though the
lab .ijt files are text files which any vers
Does that mean you are volunteering to do the update?
;)
Thanks,
--
Raul
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 8:56 PM, robert therriault wrote:
> Hey Raul,
>
> Developing a tool that can be used to create labs as they are imagined now
> is mostly an update from the previous lab author, so most of the he
Hey Raul,
Developing a tool that can be used to create labs as they are imagined now is
mostly an update from the previous lab author, so most of the heavy lifting has
been done. The next level is to come up with what labs might become;
incorporating a number of communications methods that html
Keep in mind that my "don't like video" is limited - I *would* like it
under a variety of circumstances and I would not hesitate to recommend it
for some purposes.
I'm not trying to say it's bad or anything. But I guess I do avoid it in
some contexts.
Meanwhile, it can't be that hard to document
Hey Raul,
1) One of the advantages of scripted video is that there is a written artefact
that could be included for search purposes. Similar to the way that SVG
includes its text as searchable content as opposed to bitmaps of words on
canvas.
2) This is a little trickier because it implicitly
I guess I have two thoughts looking at that:
(1) I personally prefer reading over video. Video is really hard to find
using search, and it's slow to watch.
(2) Why don't I know how to generate a UI like that, using J?
Of course anything worth doing takes time, and I have to allow for that.
But v
Thanks Raul,
Another (albeit market driven) approach is the short video tutorial to describe
use of a specific tooll. These short tutorials for the use of pixelmator
software are good because they have actually provided very precise instruction
on use of a tool in about a minute. The amount of
Writing decent tutorial documentation can be hard.
So here's an example of how one guy who has written a fair amount of
documentation has approached things:
http://www.xess.com/static/media/appnotes/FpgasNowWhatBook.pdf
Personally, I'm not all that fond of pdf - I personally prefer working more
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