Great idea Henry, I would be willing to pitch in on this. I do have some production skills and have posted on Youtube on a semi-regular basis. I think that the biggest requirement beyond technical skills are the writing skills to tell a compelling story to our prospective audience. I am hoping that you will be involved in the story telling required as well as the coding. When we have a few more contributors, I would guess that the next step would be to identify our audience.
Cheers, bob On Feb 14, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Henry Rich <henryhr...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > Ian Clark's NuVoc project is a great start at making J easier for newcomers. > As part of that effort, the FrontPage of the Wiki now has a section aimed at > newcomers. > > As Ian observed, a newcomer's first 5 minutes with J will be decisive in > establishing their attitude towards the language. As things stand, it takes > a serious geek to take a shine to J in 5 minutes. Just between us geeks, I > wish there were more of us, but that's not the way to bet. > > No, we need a snappy demo: an application that everyone can relate to, > showing how we can code something meaningful and get a pretty display in > under 5 minutes. Ideally it should be a YouTube video, with an accompanying > Lab so the interested user can reproduce the results. > > I call for somebody, or a small group, to produce /J in 5 Minutes/, the demo > that really makes the case for the language. The job requires creative and > production skills that I lack, but I will be willing to write code to further > the project. > > Henry Rich > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
