Bob, all, I just ran through part of the math/groups lab. Very cool! Thanks; I think this is a powerful message.
At the beginning, the lab has the traditional, "To advance the lab, select menu Help|Studio|Advance or the corresponding shortcut." I know there's a button, but is that clear enough for newcomers? Just checking. Bill -- Bill Harris On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 5:31 PM 'robert therriault' via General < [email protected]> wrote: > Present: Art Anger, John Baker, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault > > 1) Bob presented an update on the J Playground. > https://jsoftware.github.io/j-playground/bin/html/emj.html In the last > week, a lot of work has been done by Joe Bogner, as he is looking to reduce > his involvement with much of the heavy lifting completed. Currently the > Playground has the ability to > a) run selected J labs from the menu > b) Enter multiline scripts which can be saved as URL's of the Playground > c) Provide a bridge between JavaScript and J > Since Will and Jon were not at the meeting, there was not any discussion > about steps forward other than the fact that we are far ahead of schedule > with this aspect of the project and there is no need to rush development. > > 2) We then discussed the structure of the wiki, beginning with the > appearance of the landing pages. The feeling was that the more colourful > icon pages would be used for high traffic areas, but that this look was not > required for pages deeper in the wiki with higher text content. The > existing prototype pages would be extended so that they have active links > to allow people to test the wiki more effectively. Also, plans to replicate > the information on the jsoftware README page on the main prototype landing > page https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki/prototype_landing_page , so > that link from J software will access the main landing page. There was then > some discussion about revising the sidebar with links to the Playground, > moving the J wiki search to the top and reviewing some of the links such as > Random Page to see whether their utility meets the amount of space that > they occupy. The advantage of the sidebar is that it is present on every > page of the wiki. A question of whether the category page should be > included in the sidebar was not resolved. > > 3) Bob ran an update of last week's video which will be public on Friday > March 11th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfKp12Bf5T8 and there was > discussion on the choice of topic for the next week's video. Raul suggested > that he uses Rosettastone https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:J#mw-pages > for a lot of programming, but that might not be the best for the general > audience. Bob suggested that he would do a walk through of the Playground > to highlight its capabilities and that if anyone had ideas later to let him > know. > > > If you are interested in being involved with this process please reply to > the general forum. We welcome any comments or suggestions that you might > have. > > For access to previous meeting reports > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki_Development > > Cheers, bob > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Bill Harris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
