Intro. to APL books

Dear all,

I have published my course notes on APL in the form of 2 books.

The first book (ISBN 0-952-41671-9) is an introduction to basic APL at
the heart of Sharp APL and IBM APL before the split in 1981, plus an
introduction to second generation APL at the heart of IBM APL2, Dyalog
APL, MicroAPL and others.

The second book (ISBN 0-952-41672-7) introduces the additions to
Dyalog APL since 1990 and up to version 11.

These books are available directly from ROBERTSON(Publishing), 15
Little Basing, Basingstoke, RG24 8AX at £9.99 and £29.99 respectively,
or online from, for example, Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?...=robertson+apl

The books are not a substitute for the excellent materials that come
bundled with an APL interpreter, but they might prove of some help for
beginners and others attempting to master the language.

/Graeme.

Congratulations, Graeme.

Is is possible that you can post the table of contents for each book
here?

Hello, Graeme:

I clicked on the amazon link you provided, but both books show as
"Currently unavailable."

What's up with that?

Please advise,

Thanks.

very courageous! Bravo!

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Dear all,

I have published my course notes on APL in the form of 2 books.

The first book (ISBN 0-952-41671-9) is an introduction to basic APL at
the heart of Sharp APL and IBM APL before the split in 1981, plus an
introduction to second generation APL at the heart of IBM APL2, Dyalog
APL, MicroAPL and others.

The second book (ISBN 0-952-41672-7) introduces the additions to
Dyalog APL since 1990 and up to version 11.

These books are available directly from ROBERTSON(Publishing), 15
Little Basing, Basingstoke, RG24 8AX at £9.99 and £29.99 respectively,
or online from, for example, Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?...=robertson+apl

The books are not a substitute for the excellent materials that come
bundled with an APL interpreter, but they might prove of some help for
beginners and others attempting to master the language.

/Graeme.

On Sep 10, 4:19*pm, Mark S Waterbury <mark.s.waterb...@att.net> wrote:
> Hello, Graeme:
>
> I clicked on the amazon link you provided, but both books show as
> "Currently unavailable."
>
> What's up with that?
>
> Please advise,
>
> Thanks.

Please just ignore the "unavailable" message in Amazon. You can still
order the books there. That message will be changed soon.
/G

On Sep 10, 3:47*pm, AAsk <AA2e...@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
> Congratulations, Graeme.
>
> Is is possible that you can post the table of contents for each book
> here?

Hi AAsk,

You can see the entire contents of the previous editions at
http://www.dyalog.dk/conf2006.htm under the headings:

Graeme Robertson:
Intro Course to 1st&2nd Generation APL (pdf, ~681kb)
Intro Course to 3rd&4th Generation APL - Day 1 (zip, ~3Mb)
Intro Course to 3rd&4th Generation APL - Day 2 (zip, ~3.5Mb)

Also, please note that anyone who is coming to the Dyalog 2008
conference in Denmark in October will be able to buy the books at a
discounted price.

Kind regards,
Graeme.