Mastering Dyalog APL
A Complete Introduction to Dyalog APL
by Bernard Legrand
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This book is specifically aimed at helping new users get started with Dyalog and advancing them to a point where they can produce working solutions by expressing ideas directly in APL. Step by step, this book gives the reader a thorough grounding in the philosophy of the APL language, and the many examples illustrate the practical capabilities of this dynamic software development environment. Each chapter ends with a set of exercises through which both beginners and advanced readers can test their skills as they progress through the course. Solutions with detailed explanations are given in the final chapter.
Although the book is primarily aimed at new developers and is suitable for students with no prior programming experience, most chapters end with a "Specialist's Section" containing tips and tricks that will be of interest to readers with experience with programming and some prior knowledge of APL. 
Book Description
Mastering Dyalog APL is a complete guide to the use of Dyalog, beginning with a thorough introduction to the APL programming language. Following this, the tutorial describes a large number of common coding techniques and discusses a variety of interfaces, including file handling and COM/OLE. Bernard Legrand provides a comprehensive introduction to developing Graphical User Interfaces in Dyalog and wraps up with an overview of the publishing tool NewLeaf and the RainPro graphics engine, both of which are included with Dyalog.This book is specifically aimed at helping new users get started with Dyalog and advancing them to a point where they can produce working solutions by expressing ideas directly in APL. Step by step, this book gives the reader a thorough grounding in the philosophy of the APL language, and the many examples illustrate the practical capabilities of this dynamic software development environment. Each chapter ends with a set of exercises through which both beginners and advanced readers can test their skills as they progress through the course. Solutions with detailed explanations are given in the final chapter.
Although the book is primarily aimed at new developers and is suitable for students with no prior programming experience, most chapters end with a "Specialist's Section" containing tips and tricks that will be of interest to readers with experience with programming and some prior knowledge of APL.
This open book is licensed under a MIT License. You can download Mastering Dyalog APL ebook for free in PDF format (9.4 MB).
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Getting Started
Chapter 2
Data and Variables
Chapter 3
Some Primitive Functions
Chapter 4
User Defined Functions
Chapter 5
First Aid Kit
Chapter 6
Execute & Format Control
Chapter 7
Working on Data Shape
Chapter 8
Special Syntax
Chapter 9
Nested Arrays (Continued)
Chapter 10
Operators
Chapter 11
Mathematical Functions
Chapter 12
System Interfaces
Chapter 13
Event Handling
Chapter 14
File Processing
Chapter 15
Namespaces
Chapter 16
Graphical User Interface
Chapter 17
Interfaces
Chapter 18
SALT
Chapter 19
Publishing Tools
Chapter 20
Solutions
Book Details
Title
Mastering Dyalog APL
Subject
Computer Science
Publisher
Dyalog
Published
2009
Pages
818
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13 Digital
9780956463807
ISBN10 Digital
0956463800
PDF Size
9.4 MB
License
MIT License
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