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need help with the basics of Mathematica

Posted 10 years ago

As my computer intermittently crashed on me, and not sure if this is the correct section for this post... I need help to learn mathematica so I can do an assignment that I said I would do for english: Write a short introduction user manual for mathematica. I am still in the infancy of learning mathematica and need help to learn the software, more than writing the user manual. If you could help me not only understand the Wolfram language, and Mathematica I would be more than happy to share my finished product with everyone for free so that no one else struggles with learning mathematica like I am. I just find the current user help documentation a little confusing, and have not spent enough time to figure it all out. While I can only submit my own writing for a Mathematic manual for my english class, I figured that we could create an interesting and friendly user manual formate that can be used for a solid introduction to mathematica.

I first need ideas of what would be important for the new user to know. If you could please post suggestions.

I hope that you can support me, and that we can create a good user manual for everyone.

Jonathon Hazelton

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Posted 10 years ago

A farmer buys 100 animals for $100.00. The animals include at least one cow, one pig, and one chicken, but no other kind. If a cow costs $10.00, a pig costs $3.00, and a chicken costs $0.50, how many of each did he buy? Please show me the best way to set this out in Mathematica

POSTED BY: Owen Parker

A "bottoms up" approach to Mathematica could be to start with numbers (as there are multiple types), move up to lists, then discuss pattern matching as an introduction to rules and functions.

POSTED BY: Frank Kampas

So the user manual is simple for basics of language structure... The problem that I find with the current documentation that accompanies mathematica is that is it choppy and has no flow linking it together. This causes confusion in my mind and needs to be corrected. While there are currently user manuals that can be purchased I have to write one for me english class. So I'll start looking at the documentation and writing the user manual.

POSTED BY: Bill Lewis
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