@halirutan I have added the tag code-requestto that question and maybe there is some value in people posting interesting problems that call for a "beautiful" Wolfram Language implementation - even though the people cannot maybe code themselves?

Indeed nobody is forced to answer such questions and of course there are also good reasons to not answer them or even downvote them if all it is is laziness. It depends imo.

To me I think the distinction should be whether the problem looks like a homework assignment or not.

That thread with the mandalas is pretty amazing, and it looks like it took so little code to produce, I'm impressed

I noticed that once a question reaches a negative score, more downvotes start accumulating quickly.

If I downvote and comment about why, then more downvotes come in even more quickly.

Makes one wary about downvoting. I don't always mean the question to end up at -5.

@Szabolcs I always assumed it was your plan all along to get a reversal badge

@JasonB I don't remember ever downvoting a question I answered. It may have happened once or twice ... If the question is really not good I just won't upvote it. Generally, I try to upvote everything I answer, but the reality is that I often simply forget ...'

@Szabolcs I was of course joking.

I do covet that badge though, ever since I saw user21 has it

> I am new here so I would not be able to arrive on this page easily again so it is appreciated if you could reply me on my email address ...@live.com

From here. If they explicitly state that they will not come back to read the answer, then I think the question should be closed. Answers will be a waste of time.

lol

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Nobody think there is a problem here ?

@andre The reputation points are completely undeserved, but I wouldn't close the question. He's not asking "how to learn Mathematica in one day". He's asking for tutorials which aim to teach the basics of Mathematica very quickly. The title of the question comes from the fact that such tutorials are often called "Learn xyz in 24 hours" and such things, when written for other languages. It seems to me like a valid reference request.

Hi everyone! I find it difficult to describe what I want to achieve, so I thought I'd write here to get some pointers on the formulation. Here it goes, I want to output results of the ongoing computation as soon as they become available. I think I have seen a question describing something similar but I cannot find it :s any ideas?

For example, I got a function f which takes lists as arguments. So, when I do ` f /@ {lista,listb,listc} - how could I display the result of the function as soon as they become available instead of waiting until everything has been processed?

func[x_]:=Module[{result}, result = <your code here>; Print[result]; result]

func /@ {listA, listB, listC}

@C.E. The reputation system is not the only problem. Another problem is that beginners will be laid to disaster (have a very narrow vision of Mma, or give up because it is to big ...). What I don't like also is the vocabulary of the title borrowed to "advertising slogan" : a way to attract focus on the question that could be reused by other people.

There will also a very few people that will imagine to know enough to claim they practise Mathematica, but above all what I'm afraid is a banalisation (trivialization) of this kind of distortion of reality.

That's not all, but that's enough.

I'm not sure to be clear, but you will certainly get the main ideas.