NYCJUG is the New York City J User's Group.
All interested in J are welcome!
Purpose
To discuss J, drink beer, etc.
If you're learning a new language, especially one as rich as J, it's valuable to talk about it face-to-face with other people. Even when you know a language well, it's often illuminating to explain things to those less knowledgeable than you.
Want to join? Just add yourself to this list and shoot DevonMcCormick an email!
Meetings: once per month
Where: offices of BEST (Bayesian Enhanced Strategic Trading) at 79 Hudson Street, Suite 701, Hoboken, NJ
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here for directions to the offices of BEST at 79 Hudson Street, Suite 701, in Hoboken NJ.
When: 2nd Tuesday of the month
The second Tuesday of every month [some times skipping August].
Meetings Format
The general format of our meetings is as follows:
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Time |
Subject |
Description |
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18:30 - 19:00 |
Beginner's regatta |
We cover topics on basic facilities of J |
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19:00 - 19:30 |
Show-and-tell |
Attendees are encouraged to show recent code on which they've been working in order to show off, and to solicit advice and sympathy. |
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19:30 - 20:00 |
Advanced topics |
We look at more advanced features of the language. |
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20:00 - 20:30 |
Learning and teaching J |
We're distilling our own experiences to help others get a handle on J and improve our own knowledge. |
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20:30 - ? |
Wrap-up |
General talk, drink beer, go home, eat dinner, whatever. |
These broad areas are structured and ordered so that you may arrive or leave earlier or later depending on your particular interests.
Next Meeting: Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 6:30 pm.
We'll meet at the offices of BEST, in Hoboken. Look here for directions.
Notes on Past Meetings
Use ISO date format of the meeting date, e.g. 2007-01-19. Then fill out the meeting template.
Group project, Save Work, persistent data, raising interest in J, language as culture, picture albums, date arithmetic, catalog obverse, CSV files, beginner questions
public domain licensing, persistence of information, "Save Work" project, APL/J Rosetta Stone, date conversions, design considerations, learning APL and similar languages
Save Work project reports, GUI event-loop, combining GUI with command-line, general organizing principles for learning J
indexing help, unit tests, interface design, commenting convention, organizing J tips, Howard Peelle
self-defining J, Rosetta Stone, GUI+command-line, Vicki use-case, files most likely to need backup, text into bitmap, Pascal's triangle
NYCJUG meeting, 64-bit J, installing applications, parallelism, name shadowing, maths challenge, invoking J
NYCJUG meeting; explaining dimensionality, frames, cells, rank; 64-bit J; Netflix Bayesian approach; installation standards; Linux; re-framing efficiency.
NYCJUG meeting; how long to learn J?; making logos using "plot"; recursion in J; publicizing J: ICFP, Dr. Dobbs article; efficiency as total time-to-solution; customizing user folders var USERFOLDERS_j_.
APL2007 conference report, timings considered harmful for beginners, generalized solver, policy for implementing new release of J
Self-reference for recursion, continuing problems naming symbols and ideas, a start on a "VB Rosetta" project, some ideas for puzzles and challenges, some ideas for a group project.
"Porter Stemmer", J-like, Tao of J, conditional probability, readability, "Transitive Closure", interface design, algorithm development
Projects
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Project |
Description |
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Date Representation |
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Pascal's Triangle->Sierpinski |
See Sierpinksi |
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User-friendly backup script |
See Backup |
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User verb metric script? |
See Verb Metrics |
Members
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