The Mathematica Journal is a free journal with a wonderful community where experts and intermediate users share their thoughts and tips on programming with Mathematica. Interested readers can access the current and previous volumes in the following link: http://www.mathematica-journal.com/.

Mathematica has loads of functions that are used to manipulate lists. The same goes for the amazing number of options it offers to customize our plots. We will cover some more plots in the upcoming chapters, but we cannot possibly list every feature and function. Our goal is to learn visualization by developing some small projects. An introductory book that introduces Mathematica programming to beginners is Programming with Mathematica by Paul Wellin. The Mathematica documentation is a very good resource to find all the plotting options and their usage. Other useful list-manipulation techniques are also described in several tutorials in the documentation. When in doubt, or if you simply...