APL Primers and Tutorials

APL is more expressive than many programming languages and started from a consistent and coherent design philosophy. But it is inescapably "different" from the majority of programming languages which can make it harder for the beginner to get a quick graps of what is and is not achievable using APL.

APL is its own best teacher - the try/see nature of the APL session is an excellent environment. But it is good to be taken for some sort of guided tour.

Many of the standard texts are old and/or hard to obtain. There are a number of more recent tutorials and primers available on the Web...

• Learning APL; A wiki-based tutorial exploring the core APL language.

• A Practical Introduction to APL1 and APL2; Graeme Robertson. A comprehensive APL course which mirrors the evolution of APL.

• APL+Win Training Program; Customized APL+Win training for new and existing APL'ers.

• Dyalog Primer; Dick Bowman. A series of try/discuss/practice pages which tour Dyalog APL as of early 2008.

• VisualAPL Tutorial; Download this tutorial to get a quick start with VisualAPL within the mainstream Microsoft Visual Studio programming environment.

• VisualAPL Web Casts; An extensive series of pre-recorded web casts illustrating the features of VisualAPL in a Microsoft Visual Studio context.