Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "In order to import data into Mathematica, the Import function is used."

A block of code is set as follows:

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  return WSMain(argc, argv);
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

checkdate[x_] := 
If[DateObject[x] == DateObject["2015JAN"], True, False]

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "To go to further instructions, let's click on the Continue button".

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.