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Re: Mathematica Programming Reference Recommendation

• To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
• Subject: [mg1005] Re: Mathematica Programming Reference Recommendation
• From: rubin at msu.edu (Paul A. Rubin)
• Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 05:18:28 -0400
• Organization: Michigan State University

In article <3o6sha$pjb at news0.cybernetics.net>,
   dale at pegasus.cuc.ab.ca wrote:
->I'm looking for a Mathematica programming text and have 3 from which to 
choose. Does 
->one go more highly recommended than the others? I would be happy to hear 
from anyone 
->that can recommend any of these (or others). I'm quite familiar with 
general 
->programming principles, but haven't done any Mathematica programming.
->
->* Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, and Paul R. Wellin:  Introduction 
to 
->Programming with Mathematica  
->* John W. Gray:  Mastering Mathematica: Programming Methods and 
Applications  
->* Roman Maeder:  Programming in Mathematica Second Edition  
->
->Thanks,
->Dale
->---
->Dale Brisinda                        Email: brisinda at cpsc.ucalgary.ca
->Graduate Student                     NeXTmail: dale at pegasus.cuc.ab.ca
->Department of Computer Science                    Tel: (403) 220-7687
->University of Calgary                             Fax: (403) 281-5242
->
->http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~brisinda/home.html
->PGP Public Key: `finger -l brisinda at cpsc.ucalgary.ca'

I can't speak to the first two books, but I used Maeder's book (after 
reading the Holy Writ of Mathematica cover to cover first, of course).  
Maeder's book helped me significantly improve my understanding of 
programming issues, specifically contexts and packaging.

Paul

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