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From: dave@mtunb.UUCP (David Lindsay)
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Subject: Re: APL book for beginner
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Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 10:00:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 15 10:00:40 1986
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Keywords: I'm learning, I need help, I'm doing it all by bl**dy self :-~

In article <476@l.cc.purdue.edu> roz@l.cc.purdue.edu (Vu Qui Hao-Nhien) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I'm a poor little fellow who's trying to learn APL because there's no APL-
>programming course anywhere here at Purdue.  The EE Dept used to offer one,
>but no longer is, because the fellow who used to teach it for meager graduate
>TA salaries got his degree and left.  *SO*, I'd like your help in recomending
>a good text on APL for beginners.  Please feel free to add any and all comments
>about the book(s) you're recommending.
>
>advTHANKSance.
>-- 
>Hao-Nhien Q. Vu (pur-ee!l.cc.purdue.edu!vu)
>                (vu@l.cc.purdue.edu)
>[That's "ell", not "one"]


A couple of APL book recommendations:

o	Introduction to APL and Computer Programming,
	by E. Harms & M. Zabinski, Wiley & Sons, 1977
This book is a good intro to APL with lots of example code and flowcharts
to help explain the examples. It even provides solutions to the exercises!

o	APL-STAT, by J. Ramsey & G. Musgrave, 1981, Lifetime Learning Pub.
	(a div. of Wadsworth).
This book is a beginners book looking at APL from a STATistics view. Lots
of good example code (and exercises with solution code) covering most
standard statistical problems (e.g., distributions, regression).

I think both of these texts are good learning tools to pick up APL.

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