Re: Re: Re: Re: snippets
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- Subject: [mg89700] Re: [mg89677] Re: [mg89527] Re: [mg89498] Re: snippets
- From: "peter lindsay" <plindsay at mcs.st-and.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:26:00 -0400 (EDT)
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yes, I find these helpful too. Many thanks. Peter 2008/6/17 Jose Luis Gomez <jose.luis.gomez at itesm.mx>: > > Great! I was Not aware of those updated animations, thank you! > Jose > > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Murray Eisenberg [mailto:murray at math.umass.edu] > Enviado el: Jueves, 12 de Junio de 2008 10:20 p.m. > Para: Mathematica news group mailing list > Asunto: Re: [mg89527] Re: [mg89498] Re: snippets > > There is some nice tutorial material on those Mathematica web pages! > > On one page, "Animations that illustrate how Mathematica commands work", > you reference the work of Keehong Song and link to his web page. Are > you aware that essentially (exactly?) the same thing was more recently > made available at http://documents.wolfram.com/flash/ ? Unfortunately > it's hard to find if you do a search at wolfram.com, even for "animated > Mathematica functions"! > > Jose Luis Gomez wrote: >> I totally agree with Murray (see his message below), and if you know > someone >> who is already used to work with For, you can show her/him the tutorial in >> the following link, in order to convince her/him that For should not be > used >> in Mathematica >> (please notice that long URLs are usually broken in these messages, so > that >> you might have to copy-paste the entire link instead of just click on it) >> http://homepage.cem.itesm.mx/lgomez/matecmatica/fp/fp.html >> http://homepage.cem.itesm.mx/lgomez/matecmatica/funcionalprog.nb >> http://homepage.cem.itesm.mx/lgomez/mathematica6.htm >> >> HTH >> Jose >> MExico >> >> >> -----Mensaje original----- >> De: Murray Eisenberg [mailto:murray at math.umass.edu] >> Enviado el: Jueves, 12 de Junio de 2008 01:57 a.m. >> Para: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >> Asunto: [mg89527] Re: [mg89498] Re: snippets >> >> 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 Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 > > > -- peter lindsay computing officer mathematical institute university of st andrews ky16 9ss phone: 01334463756 The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532
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