Am I the only one that liked the music? Maybe my tastes are just strange...
Thanks, -- Raul On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Dan Abell <dab...@txcorp.com> wrote: > First of all, bravo to Martin for putting in the time > and effort to make that video. I think it does a very > good job of showing a newbie why it might be worth > learning J. So please---please---take the following > criticism as constructive. > > Concerning the music: I felt the music's emotional > content varied, and that detracted from the video. > A somewhat harsher view---add salt to taste---is that > music adds nothing to the information content of the > video. In that sense, one might view it as the video > equivalent of what Edward Tufte calls "chart junk". > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk > > How about rounding out the video's claimed 15 minutes > (you have 38 seconds left) to, however briefly, near > the beginning, say something about J's unusual syntax? > I.e., address the "Culture Shock" Henry Rich refers to > in his book. > > In the last example, it would look better if the adjusted > date range was persistent (meaning no need to press 'Go' > after each change of the stock view). > > Cheers, > -Dan > > On 7 Mar 2014, at 20:57, Yike Lu wrote: > > > I think that having music is better than no music. But I also feel that > the > > music chosen is uhh... too upbeat. Usually music for coding videos is > more > > ambient. > > -- > Dan T. Abell :: dabell at txcorp dot com :: 303.444.2452 > Tech-X Corp., 5621 Arapahoe Ave, Ste A, Boulder CO 80303 > http://www.txcorp.com :: 303.748.6894/c 303.448.7756/fx > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
