From: Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Scheme books [was: lat? and atom? not in guile?]
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:47:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d52eed4-627b-2eca-7917-db88992521f9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfZxx_ihGPVmij+NV0G6JrQ2Z-SOzfjGObotQZS0q_JG1w@mail.gmail.com>
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. The style gets the stuff into my head w/o resorting to
trying out problems on the computer (yet).
I have also read
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
The Scheme Programming Language
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-20 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-19 15:18 lat? and atom? not in guile? Joshua Branson
2018-06-19 16:13 ` Thompson, David
2018-06-20 14:37 ` Joshua Branson
2018-06-20 14:40 ` John Cowan
2018-06-20 14:55 ` Thompson, David
2018-06-20 16:55 ` Joshua Branson
2018-06-20 23:47 ` Matt Wette [this message]
2018-06-21 13:44 ` Scheme books [was: lat? and atom? not in guile?] Joshua Branson
2018-06-21 14:01 ` Matt Wette
2018-06-20 16:54 ` lat? and atom? not in guile? Joshua Branson
2018-06-19 16:46 ` John Cowan
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