Raul, Thank you for responding. I am making my own flashcards and in fact (to your point) just started on the “SC/FLO” group. I also expect to include some of the shorter sentences from J Phrases, and to harvest what I can from JfC, LJ, etc.
You’re certainly right about reading the docs—I also read a lot of German “documentation” when I was studying the language—but (for me) flashcards provide something important that the docs never did: instant readiness-to-hand for both vocabulary and idioms, which I found invaluable both while writing and (especially) while reading. No thought, no hesitation, no uncertainty: I just *knew* on sight. I’d like to achieve that level of comfort with J, particularly with respect to tacit constructs. Thanks again. Ed Sent from my iPad > On Aug 14, 2022, at 1:16 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am not aware of any J flash cards. > > But, you could make your own flash cards. > > J vocabulary is quite a bit smaller than german vocabulary which would > make writing your own flash cards relatively easy. > > Personally, I would recommend spending half an hour a day doing stuff > with J -- labs, looking things up in the dictionary, reading some of > the J books. For me the difficulty learning J was learning how the > concepts built on each other. Seeing how the operations produce > results in various ways has always been key for understanding what's > going on, for me. Working through details of things like "how does the > parser work" was also illuminating. > > That said, if you do make flash cards, I suppose you could include > foreigners and "special code" on the list (depending on how ambitious > you are). And, others might be interested in your work. > > -- > Raul > >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 7:53 AM Ed Gottsman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Greetings. >> >> I’m trying to improve my understanding of J by using the same approach that >> got me through German I-III: flashcards. (It’s a huge relief that J, while >> in some ways as imposing as German, is at least free of irregular verbs.) I >> just passed 250 cards (vocabulary, grammar and idioms) with no end in sight >> but it suddenly hit me that I may not be the first person to try this. >> >> Have flashcards been used to teach J? If so, what was the experience? And: >> are there any decks still floating around? >> >> Many thanks. >> >> Ed >> >> Sent from my iPad >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
