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From: maledetto <maledetto@online.de>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a straight way to testing the own scheme capabilities?
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:12:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110120231225.3974a2e4.maledetto@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ei87v70a.fsf@ambire.localdomain>

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:07:17 +0100
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> wrote:

> () maledetto <maledetto@online.de>
> () Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:48:40 +0100
> 
>    my simple intention is to do a straight check how 'fit' i am in
> scheme without studying multiple thick books and their examples.  do
> you have any good hints?
> 
> You can pick some Scheme code out there and read it, with an eye
> on adding comments and posting the diffs to be incorporated upstream.
> This exercise will help you gauge your understanding against that of
> those who maintain the code.  Some positive side effects: code review,
> more comments (at an "appropriate" level), interaction with multiple
> "real world" examples and people.  Caveat: the latter might degenerate
> into a negative experience, people being what they are, but then
> that's life outside the books.
> 

many thanks for the comments. but they rather target at programming
skills and not that at knowledge-about-the-language (call/cc, ,@,
etc.) they also aint the quickest ways ;) aren't there some tests out
there?

regards,
maledetto <maledetto@online.de>



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-20 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-20 16:48 a straight way to testing the own scheme capabilities? maledetto
2011-01-20 16:58 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2011-01-20 17:07 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-01-20 22:12   ` maledetto [this message]
2011-01-21 10:21     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-01-21 14:07       ` Joel James Adamson
2011-01-21 17:18         ` maledetto
2011-01-21 18:42           ` Joel James Adamson

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