Re: Book recommendation for
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- Subject: [mg9628] Re: Book recommendation for
- From: gaylord at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (richard j. gaylord)
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 21:40:07 -0500
- Organization: university of illinois
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In article <64fh6e$c6s$5 at dragonfly.wolfram.com>, "Sherman.Reed"
<sherman.reed at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 3. Mathematica is not for the faint hearted, it a serious and
> complicated computer based algebra tool for engineers and scientists
> who want to push the frontier, and are willing to pay the price for
> success.
you shouldn't generalize like that; it unnecessarily scares off people.
it may have been hard for you to master, but for alot of other people
it's easy to learn to use [my students learn to write good programs in
mathematica in a month's time once they are forbidden to use procedural
style].
my experience is that if you don't take the right approach, it can
indeed be difficult - but then its kind of difficult to reach
california by driving east from the midwest too :)
-richard-
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richard j. gaylord, university of illinois, gaylord at uiuc.edu
"What I cannot create, I do not understand"
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