On Apr 17, 11:39=A0pm, Ross Tucker <rjtu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Total APL n00b here but I thought I'd say hi.
> Also, a question- could anybody suggest some easy practice problems
> for a person (me) just learning the language? My traditional set of
> bootstrap programs are things like text-mode 99 bottles of beer
> printers, hangman, blackjack, tic-tac-toe, but they don't seem to be
> well suited for APL. Well, tic-tac-toe might be a cool 1-liner, but
> I'm just BEGINNING, so I'll save that one till later.
> Finally, I ordered 2 cheap books from amazon, but I wonder if you
> might suggest your favorites. I do know Python (fairly well), C
> (fairly well), and assembler (also a n00b), so I don't need that. Any
> ideas?
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Ross Tucker
Hi Ross,
Unfortunately, a lot of the APL material that is available is a bit
dated. One new source of information, which still doesn't have a huge
amount of material but is starting to grown, is the APL Wiki at
http://aplwiki.aplteam.com
(take a look at DBook for starters).
Many of the vendors also allow you to download manuals free of charge,
with some tutorial materials. For example, you can download all the
Dyalog manuals free of charge from Lulu.com (http://stores.lulu.com/
dyalog). Product documentation is available online at
http://www.dyalog.com/=
help,
and http://www.dyalog.com/documentation.
Bernard Legrands "A Glimpse of Heaven" is also worth reading, you can
find this at http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/v231/legrand.htm.
Bernard is in the process of writing a brand new APL textbook which
will be available late this summer, unfortunately this won't help you
right now...
Regards,
Morten Kromberg
Dyalog Ltd.
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