Re: snippets
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- Subject: [mg89708] Re: snippets
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:41:03 -0400 (EDT)
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Murray Eisenberg wrote: > That's a useful tutorial on your blog. Of course the palette shown > reflects your own interests and needs. > > But the title "Newbie.nb" for this palette jarred when I saw the For > expression on one of the buttons. In general, it's a bad idea to look > right away to For in order to do iteration. I recommend that "newbies" > not even be told about For until all other, more reasonable constructs > -- Table, Sum, f@@expr, f/expr, Nest, etc. -- be tried first for fit to > the problem. > > In short, when in Mathematica-land, code in the best > "Mathematica-speak", not in FORTRAN-speak, C-speak, etc. > > bobeuland at gmail.com wrote: >> Since nobody answered my question I had to do some digging myself. The >> best approach I found was to make a custom palette for my snippets. >> You can see how I've done it at >> >> http://bobueland.com/2008/06/10/how-to-create-a-palette/ >> > Murray, Can I suggest that people should be taught BOTH procedural and functional code. This is because procedural code can be very useful for messy problems - where the arrays are not going to be processed in a nice uniform way. Sure, there will probably be a functional equivalent, but it may be quite hard to formulate. Procedural code also provides a comforting link with C and Fortran programming experience - a bit like learning to ice skate by holding on to the barrier! David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk
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