From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: maledetto Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: a straight way to testing the own scheme capabilities? Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:12:25 +0100 Message-ID: <20110120231225.3974a2e4.maledetto@online.de> References: <20110120174840.cc602d2d.maledetto@online.de> <87ei87v70a.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295561573 7393 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2011 22:12:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:12:53 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 20 23:12:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pg2kG-0004GP-0r for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:12:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38607 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pg2kF-0003NM-9J for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:12:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55849 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pg2jz-0003JL-QL for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:12:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pg2jy-0000mv-6T for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:12:27 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:55347) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pg2jx-0000mX-Qd for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:12:26 -0500 Original-Received: from zahlenwald (p5B0481F5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.4.129.245]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MMpWJ-1PbMRj0k9v-008Iql; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:12:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87ei87v70a.fsf@ambire.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.3 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:Na+XYBP56QPe6DUoskNT0ozySBeBpD70sJOYOngv9X3 j5vtOB+8az00cUVkMgDI83yVbtngh0yT2mnomMlYjrVLAxePvJ BIXkScvL9fygmUcc/+FUfVojWuqXYMNRntjUCuQZz8ZCZrtt7Z Mfpv12Y3+iryk+DghV0/50pKFzbgttASEmH5Yfz0QTD7riBmg8 11gdIxtDSxHx2SHQNX8MPQgl/tujl1qPjgpw2+xHnA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:8374 Archived-At: On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:07:17 +0100 Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > () maledetto > () 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