I'm thinking of producing one more revision
of Learning J, and this will probably be the last.
I would be glad to know if people have any thoughts on
what topics are not adequately covered, or not covered
at all, or things that could be better explained.
If so, a good time to mention it would
One of the most useful additions would be on how to get help, and in particular
how to get help -- or provision of actual help -- on the J stdlib.
From the viewpoint of newcomers to J, and even rusty old-timers, the most
serious impediment to learning, or usefully proceeding with, J is the
One area I think not directly covered in documentation is:
learning J from functional programming concepts, and learning J from database
programming concepts.
- Original Message -
From: Roger Stokes r...@rogerstokes.free-online.co.uk
To: gene...@jsoftware.com
Cc:
Sent: Saturday,
Hi Roger,
Thank you for your contribution to this community, and it helped me jump
start learning J in the early period.
One area I would like to be added is, How to Detect, Track and Solve Bugs
in J. That chapter would include how to test, and how to debug (using
debugging facilities, simple
