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### Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?

I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I'm always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there's something nifty that I haven't ...
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### Having used Mathematica as a “gateway” language, where to from here?

I have been using Mathematica for about a year. It is the first language that I have attempted to learn. I'm still very much a newbie, but there are moments I feel more like I am waving than drowning. ...
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### What Mathematica book to buy?

I have used Mathematica for several years but at a pretty low level - piecing together built-in function inefficiently and fearing the sight of # and &'s when I see others use them (I never do). I ...
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### Mathematica as a normal programming language

I'm interested in Mathematica's core language for both practical development and as an object of computer science study. Actually, the former is more of a means to the latter. I would like to create ...
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### Mathematica for Computer Scientists

Background I've coded in C/Scheme for 10 years. I have a BS CS. I've recently become very interested in pattern-matching (lisp's match macro), and term rewriting systems, which brought me to ...
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### How to find the magnitude of a vector?

I'm doing this exercise in Wagner's book (p.78) , and this is my attempt: ...
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### Selective thinning of string elements in nested lists

I have a nested list similar to this example list (but much bigger and more messy): ...
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### Search the neighborhood area along a line in an image

I am trying to search for the black areas along a line (the horizontal line shown below). Though it is straight in this picture, it could be of irregular shape in other cases. It seems that the ...
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### The introduction for Context in Wagner's book is out of date? [duplicate]

In Section 8.1.1 (P230 of the book, P249 of the PDF) of Wagner's book, the following example is shown: x = 5; tempx = 6; Begin["temp"]; {x, Global`x} The ...
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For convenience I'm trying to add an extra property to CountryData ...
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### Is there a free version of the Springer book “Mathematical Statistics with Mathematica”?

Is there a free version of the Springer book: $$\text{Mathematical Statistics with Mathematica}$$ by Rose and Smith ... available on the internet?
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### Tracking iterations of a function

I'm learning MMA with Wagner's book. On page 41, he uses this to display the iterative steps of a FindRoot. However, I can't seem to replicate this (code at end), perhaps due to the difference in MMA ...
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### Unexpected behavior of Unevaluated

Maybe it is about time I read some proper text about the main loop. Maybe I should not care (so much) about Unevaluated (as Leonid suggests). But I think this is an interesting question anyway. This ...