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Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 2008 07:37:43 -0700
From:	jizba <jizba@verizon.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Drafting a lesson plan

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Lynn H. Maxson wrote:
> I will not attend the September SCOUG meeting. I will be down the
> street at CSUF at a Festival of Fruit instead. Nevertheless I want to
> lay out the paths we will take and the steps on them into a lesson
> plan amenable as much as possible to self-study.
>
> As APL operators remain a part of that journey I thought for
> self-study we might go to the source, Iverson's 1962 "A Programming
> Language" which I used in a UCLA extension class that year, still have
> and still revere. I googled for the title only to discover that the
> asking price came to $175. Wow! Well. let's go for an alternate like
> "APL2 at a Glance" which came with each PC APL software package.
> $67. Then finally what about the APL Language Reference manual from
> IBM. Free with download of PDF version. That's more like it.
> SH21-1061. We'll use that.
>
> We have two things initially we want to achieve with FORTH, assembling
> FORTH.exe with an understanding of its components and gaining
> experience in the language. Though I have references on FORTH I fear
> for googling the titles. For the daring you might seek out a copy of
> Brodie's "Starting FORTH". I noted at the last meeting that Sheridan
> had a copy of Loeliger's "Threaded Interpretive Languages". I don't
> remember it being inexpensive to begin with. We have as well Burge's
> "Recursive Programming Techniques" which describes the SECD machine
> which lies at the heart of interpretive systems.
>
> So we have assembly language, FORTH, APL2 and interpretive engines,
> different intersecting paths along our journey that we need somehow to
> lay out in a stepwise manner that we can all follow. Beyond that we
> need people willing to act as guides at various points along the way.
> I want to make clear that this is a "we" trip, not a "me" one. So
> consider how and where you might volunteer and contribute.
>
> We have stated that we will document each step so that those who
> follow will not have to refer to another source. That means it must
> have a clarity and communicate to each of us to insure the same for
> others who might want to pursue the same journey.
>
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I would be willing to give tutorials on APL2 given suitable time and place

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