Introduction

Abstract

As a Maple user, you may fall into any number of categories. You may only have used Maple interactively. You may already have written many of your own programs. Perhaps, even more fundamentally, you may or may not have programmed in another computer language before attempting your first Maple program. Indeed, you may have used Maple for some time without realizing that the same powerful language you regularly use to enter commands is itself a complete programming language.