vlog about Guile

[randomlooser <randomlooser@riseup.net>]

Hello

I'm Catonano, from a brand new email address

I'm trying to diminish the role of Google in my life, gradually

I made a couple of videos about Guile

They are an experiment

In the videos I explain, in my own terms, how to read a line delimited
file in Guile scheme

Here they are
https://peertube.social/videos/watch/playlist/03ebdbfb-7285-4d1f-8787-01de111a6d6d

It's not a groudbreaking use case

My assumption is that the person(s) watching these videos may be a 
beginner, not only in scheme or Guile, but in programming in general

In fact, I go through what I think is the discovery process in
painstaking detail and slowliness

I was inspired by this talk
https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/legacy_docs/

and this blog post
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/learning-a-language/

I mention both in the introduction

In the past I hinted at how I feel that the Guile documentation is
lacking in some regards

So I made these videos as an experiment

In the future I could try to cover more use cases

Some remarks:

It's not written material, it's video

This alone is a stark departure from the usual style of materials
discussing Guile

It's not feature oriented, it's use case oriented

I introduce open-input-file, read-line and with-input-from-file as the
need arises, not based on where they are in the manual

It's incomplete and maybe even incorrect in some aspects

But it strives to provide the watcher with a bit of immediate reward

This is another striking departure from the usual

I understand that to many people here, the case of reding a file in
painstaking detail and slowness is not exactly fun

You need to put yourself in someone else's shoes to watch this

Anyway, i thought it was useful to mention this here

Thanks