RE: Mathematica Programming Book Recomendation?
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- Subject: [mg38798] RE: [mg38788] Mathematica Programming Book Recomendation?
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 04:11:34 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Daniel, The best book is The Mathematica Book itself. The best advice is Steven Wolframs's "Suggestions about Learning Mathematica" in the front of the book. Actually working through and typing in the statements from most of Part I of The Book is the best way to familiarize yourself with the basics of Mathematica and save a lot of time in the long run. Other good books are: 1) The Beginner's Guide to Mathematica: Version 4 by Jerry Glynn & Theodore Gray. 2) Programming in Mathematica: Third Edition by Roman Maeder. This is more advanced and discusses the writing of packages. (Also lookup packages on MathGroup.) In my own mind there is not a lot of difference between programming in Mathematica and just using Mathematica. You will often find that you will have to write short routines to provide various needed functions. Mathematica could not possibly directly provide every useful routine that people might want. If you really get stuck, make a posting to MathGroup and provide a simple example if you can. That will also save a lot of time. After you have learned the basics, it is good practice to work with a simple non-Mathematica technical book. How easily can you translate the problems into Mathematica statements? David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ From: Daniel Heneghan [mailto:dhenegha at bway.net] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net I am learning Mathematica. Any advice on the best book to assist in learning how to program Mathematica. Thanks, -- Daniel Heneghan