Documentation

There is a lot of written material telling about the functionality and use of GAP, providing information about algorithmic background and giving hints for writing own GAP code.

• Manuals

  For the users of GAP we provide a Tutorial giving a first introduction to the system and a Reference Manual with complete descriptions of all library functions and examples of their use. Most essential changes from previous GAP releases are described in the CHANGES.md file. There is also an HPC-GAP version. Each GAP package has its individual manual which you can access through the list of Packages.

• Learning GAP

  In addition to the Tutorial mentioned above there is a variety of material intended to help people to learn on their own the GAP language and the use of the GAP system. We have tried to organize links to such material somewhat according to the level and intended audience on the page quoted in the heading.

• Teaching Material

  GAP has been used in several places to support the teaching of a variety of courses. We are grateful to the colleagues who allowed us to point to some course material of such courses and we would appreciate to obtain access to further such material. We hope that this can be helpful to colleagues intending a similar use of GAP, but it may also be used by students studying the topics of such courses.

• The GAP Bibliography

  We maintain a bibliography of papers citing GAP. Some of these papers describe applications of GAP, others algorithmic methods that are implemented in GAP. We hope that looking at these papers will be helpful for users and we ask that you help us to keep this bibliography up to date by sending us the bibliographical data of your own publications citing GAP. Note that some of the listed papers may still refer to use of GAP 3 rather than GAP 4.