Re: Types in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg62330] Re: Types in Mathematica
- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons at globalsymmetry.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 04:50:33 -0500 (EST)
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bsyehuda at gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > I warmly recommend you of Roman Maeder books, especially the "The > Mathematica Programmer I" look at > http://www.mathconsult.ch/showroom/pubs/MathProg/ > you can see there about all types of programming style implemented with > mathematica. > In addition, the combinatorica package uses the Graph[] head for their > implementation in object oriented fashion, so exploring a little bit the > combinatorica package files will help you to see how other are using this > style. > yehuda I am trying to get through Michael Trott's extensive work. Fortunately I'm finding the ballance of TMGB-P to be far less demanding than were the first two chapters. I have Roman Mæder's _Computer Science with Mathematica_, and have read several chapters of the book. I have to confess, I had not yet "seen the light", as it were, when I was reading the book, and therefore failed to grasp the underlying unity of the material. What I have discovered is that attempting to read _The Mathematica Book_ from front to back did not lead to a very good understanding of Mathematica. The book makes far more sense to me when read back to front. I will also note that Dr. Mæder's Classes package can lead to poor use of Mathematica when used by an inexperienced Mathematica programmer. OTOH, I was able to create some rather sophisticated animations using it, which I would still be hard pressed to produce without the OOP facilities in Classes`. Steven -- The Mathematica Wiki: http://www.mathematica-users.org/ Math for Comp Sci http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/math/bmwcs/master.html Math for the WWW: http://www.w3.org/Math/
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- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@globalsymmetry.com>
- Types in Mathematica