Hi Henry and Raul, I think that the audience being young programmers is a good start towards the issues that Raul raises. As an additional challenge, I think that we would want to use an example that is user friendly once their interest has been attracted. There are some areas of J that have more overhanging learning curves than others :) I don't think we would want to get them interested and then send them into the teeth of image processing unless we also provided a good road map.
Cheers, bob On Feb 15, 2014, at 9:36 AM, Henry Rich <henryhr...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > My idea about that is, we need to appeal to young programmers. The more > experience people have with scalar languages, the less able they are to learn > J. The more experience they have with other languages in a class with J, the > less they need to learn J. > > The application needs to be of obvious interest to a non-mathematical, > non-financial user. My target would be a scientist/engineer/IT person who > has a computation to perform and no canned package to do it, so they have to > write a little code. > > Henry Rich > > On 2/15/2014 12:30 PM, Raul Miller wrote: >> Perhaps it is also worth noting that we are not going to impress everyone, >> nor should we want to. >> >> J currently caters to some high powered wallstreet types, high quality >> engineering types and so on. But it's hardly the only language in use for >> any of those categories. >> >> ... anyways we should probably think a bit about qualities of the sort of >> people we think we want to attract with this video (or videos, since we >> might want to attract different kinds of people). >> >> I'd also be tempted to enlist Cathrine Lathwell's advice on video creation >> - she has more than a little relevant experience. >> >> Thanks, >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
