Lighting and Surface Properties (Mathematica Tutorial)

With the default option setting Lighting->Automatic, Mathematica uses a simulated lighting model to determine how to color polygons in three-dimensional graphics. Mathematica ...

Quantifiers (Mathematica Tutorial)

In a statement like x^4+x^2>0, Mathematica treats the variable x as having a definite, though unspecified, value. Sometimes, however, it is useful to be able to make ...

Representing Textual Forms by Boxes (Mathematica Tutorial)

All textual and graphical forms in Mathematica are ultimately represented in terms of nested collections of boxes. Typically the elements of these boxes correspond to objects ...

Short and Shallow Output (Mathematica Tutorial)

When you generate a very large output expression in Mathematica, you often do not want to see the whole expression at once. Rather, you would first like to get an idea of the ...

The Structure of Graphics (Mathematica Tutorial)

"Graphics and Sound" discusses how to use functions like Plot and ListPlot to plot graphs of functions and data. This tutorial discusses how Mathematica represents such ...

Creating Tables (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

SQLCreateTable creates a new table in a database. An alternative, using raw SQL, is described in "Creating Tables with Raw SQL". If you find that the examples in this ...

Updating Data with Raw SQL (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

The raw SQL command UPDATE updates data in a database. An alternative is to use the Mathematica command SQLUpdate, described in "Updating Data". If you find that the examples ...

LibraryGenerate (C Code Generator Package Symbol)

LibraryGenerate[cfun, name, opts] generates a shared library from the compiled function cfun using the name as the exported function name.

CCompilerDriver (C Compiler Driver Package Guide)

The CCompilerDriver package lets you work with C compilers that are installed on your computer. It lets you build executables, libraries, and object files from C source code. ...

CPreprocessorIf (SymbolicC Package Symbol)

CPreprocessorIf[cond] is a symbolic representation of a preprocessor if conditional.CPreprocessorIf[cond, true, false] represents the true and false cases.