Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!rutgers!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtune!mtunb!dave From: dave@mtunb.UUCP (David Lindsay) Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl Subject: Re: APL book for beginner Message-ID: <802@mtunb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 10:00:40 EST Article-I.D.: mtunb.802 Posted: Mon Dec 15 10:00:40 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 23:25:48 EST References: <476@l.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: dave@mtunb.UUCP (David Lindsay) Distribution: world Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA Lines: 38 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. ______ _______ _____ _______ ------- David E. Lindsay / __ \ <__ __> / __ \ <__ __> -====------ mtunb!dave | (__) | | | \ \ \_\ | | -======------ 307 Middletown-Lin. Rd. | __ | | | / _) __ | | --====------- Lincroft, NJ 07738 | | | | | | ( (__/ / | | ----------- |_| |_| |_| \_____/ |_| ------- (201) 576-2397