Vijay, Like another recent post to the forum, yours got mangled, somehow. The correct link is as follows, if it survives.
http://waterstreetgm.org/throwing-in-the-towel-on-becomming-a-programmer/ Otoh, the mangled link to which I was sent, provide another intriguing, though irrelevant blog. http://waterstreetgm.org/this-american-life/ On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Vijay Lulla <vijaylu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I came across > > http://waterstreetgm.org/throwing-in-the-towel-on-becomming-a-programmer/this > on HN. And > http://sdawncasey.wordpress.com/about/ in that page. Maybe these pages > might be useful to consider how newcomers take to concepts. These pages are > fascinating to me because it shows that even though these people have had > prior experience with other languages they claim that they still don't > understand programming. IMO, the emphasis on concepts and how J/APL can aid > in these explorations is the best approach to teach programming. Actually > Ken Iverson's explanation of Under (&.) [I read this on Ken Iverson's > Quotations page] is one of the best explanations of a very commonly > occurring programming idiom. > > -- (B=) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
