From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: searching book tips Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:37:33 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87sk1y1ynm.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <8739tyoich.fsf@ubuntu.ubuntu-domain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283018430 29687 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2010 18:00:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:00:30 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 28 20:00:29 2010 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 1OpPhb-0003oS-UK for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:00:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52724 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OpPhb-00007L-MP for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:00:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39598 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OpPhK-00007B-O0 for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpPhI-0007f3-PY for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:00:10 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpPhI-0007ei-DM for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpPhE-0003ZQ-FE for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:00:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 81.202.16.46.dyn.user.ono.com ([81.202.16.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:00:04 +0200 Original-Received: from pjb by 81.202.16.46.dyn.user.ono.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:00:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.202.16.46.dyn.user.ono.com Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OWE3MTVkZDRmY2I3MmQ1NTYwYjg3Y2JjNzY3ZGNjNjk2YWU2MThiNg== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:8107 Archived-At: anoglad@gmx.at writes: > We learn C# at school... and I'd like to write beautiful free > software. However, I'm still a bloody beginner. So could you give me > please some nice book tips about C, C++ and of course Guile? It > would be sooo awesome. AFAIK, C# is quite different from C or C++. It is my understanding that it is closer to Objective-C or Smalltalk. Don't be misled by the syntax, what matters is the semantics. That said I don't know anything about C# so I may be wrong. Probably the most effective thing you can do to learn how to write beautiful software, is to study SICP: SICP = Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ http://www.codepoetics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Topics:SICP_in_other_languages http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/lisp/sicp/ http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-plt/ As you may note with the link SICP_in_other_languages, SICP is not specifically about scheme (it just happen to use scheme for the examples and exercises since it's a little language that's easy to learn). -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/