From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Branson Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Scheme books [was: lat? and atom? not in guile?] Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:44:52 -0400 Message-ID: <878t78s17v.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <877emuyfcp.fsf@fastmail.com> <877emtplr3.fsf@fastmail.com> <9d52eed4-627b-2eca-7917-db88992521f9@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529588228 26663 195.159.176.226 (21 Jun 2018 13:37:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:37:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 21 15:37:04 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fVzlm-0006o4-Ah for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:37:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55572 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVznt-0002lp-Jr for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:39:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44909) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVznW-0002lc-Li for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVznS-000737-Iv for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:39149) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVznS-000724-BD for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:38:46 -0400 Original-Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0AC821BF7 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:38:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:38:45 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.com; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; bh=SfRItYPv2P0S3qn4BWckwXaqzrXIi unIWgqBxHgtgc0=; b=LVO8TwMVlj7fMzewFrxPSqvVsdsF0xd1qILpCkIjJLznG TSQl0d6Bcg8AzovouXDLhUw2yWXjtoyQGK3xf1r1ToeBjpgh+PR9zPdgv20vldFi qTyxszjFfbGz+t7Q69ZDf545pnU8HBflk3IJ+Ubd4SvOZTb3K4LMZEgfXYWhoxVE YB5wISkyjNsfvmMOiIR/0q/OtEgDkI9lC/l0wmhUVbn4qVpCGL7nEdeyzRK9LtM3 8o63FPJc9NRLBZi6Koij1HnO+MycQ7fTOsdq7OXfUqlYHUa86UYKvil8OJlosGO0 a054BQoEJ0rREEGZOoK8AkiO/lISOrKESrEH7Hr4Q== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; bh=SfRItY Pv2P0S3qn4BWckwXaqzrXIiunIWgqBxHgtgc0=; b=jgjVfLJXbwrhR9C0PknTxL FCsbwsoNLcg9H6VjdT0JeXAAoeP2lCNAQ8Yi892GUABIPGI7/0XW4CYznCbfMXHx pXsubGmLr/UdrUTPOAgfIsRTjeDeNWOwuwdG6iQ918G7/vusuoBjYCeUPFjg/lcU lOkdpyDosK4Zv9yIIedmXWWJ59iKtSFvHu4KypRggAGnrPZ7p9L96SHCqBXurLZK Yet/csrfuwo+Ni0lmFMi+w8qwM3Ksof3aF7aHoafOdLdLpq426MFAeB93T2W0xVM au7rXYUxZ1R7M5RuM9U5iY67P13mSy9JOnNXqpZy69BheNrODvbhGHkMW+XWCsng == X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from dobby (unknown [72.12.220.132]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 64B40E452B for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:38:45 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <9d52eed4-627b-2eca-7917-db88992521f9@gmail.com> (Matt Wette's message of "Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:47:06 -0700") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 66.111.4.26 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:14639 Archived-At: Matt Wette writes: > On 06/20/2018 07:55 AM, Thompson, David wrote > [regarding "The Little Schemer"]: >> It's repetitive but honestly I found that the comedic writing made the >> exercises very entertaining. I was rarely bored. I don't play the >> piano, but I do play drums, and the equivalent to Hanon's finger >> exercises is an old book called Stick Control, which is definitely in >> the boring as hell category! I'm glad that Lisp beginners have >> something more fun available. :) > > And on this topic, I'm currently reading 'The Reasoned Schemer,' written > in the same style.=C2=A0=C2=A0 The style gets the stuff into my head w/o = resorting to > trying out problems on the computer (yet). Hmmm. I've heard about the seasoned schemer, but not the reasoned one. I also have downloaded Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I need to actually spend some time going through it. I've just got several programming projects that I want to do, and I need to remind myself that I probably can't learn it all at once. :) > > I have also read > Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs > The Scheme Programming Language > > Matt