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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Understanding the material in this book is waaaaaaaaaaaay over my pay grade, but the Wolfram Company is offering, free, Stephen Wolfram's An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language. It is 324 pages, possibly in full color.
While I understand practically nothing about programming languages, I am familiar with a specialized search engine called WolframAlpha. I am assuming that the information in this book has something to do with what allows that search engine to do what it does.
WolframAlpha is a specialized search engine. It describes itself as a "computational knowledge engine." Where it excels is in doing computations to arrive at the information that you want to know, finding statistical information, and such like. And, another area in which it shines is in its search results. There is no digging through a huge number of hits to find the piece of information that you want to know. You can usually see it with just a glance. Compare that with Google and other traditional search engines, where you often have to dig through the search results to find the particular piece of information that you wanted. I encourage you to take the search engine on a test drive.
Anyway, back to the book . . . . this is one that is regularly sold, not something that is just thrown together to create a giveaway as a promotion. For example, Amazon has the Kindle edition for $9.99 at the present time. Find out all kinds of information about the book on this webpage. The link that leads to the free book is the one on the far righthand side of that webpage that says, "Notebook edition: Download Directly." It is a zip file. There may be a link which leads you to the whole, compiled book, but I didn't see it. |
The 'Notebook edition' seems to be the book text in the Notebook format. You probably need to install the Wolfram desktop to read it.
"This book provides an elementary introduction to the Wolfram Language
and modern computational thinking. It assumes no prior knowledge of
programming, and is suitable for both technical and non-technical college
and high-school students, as well as anyone with an interest in the latest
technology and its practical application. "
assumes no prior knowledge is always a thing easier to say than get anything from
The blog post may help
http://blog.wolfram.com/2015/12/08/i...fram-language/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Alpha