From: "Aleix Conchillo Flaqué" <aconchillo@gmail.com>
To: Christine Lemmer-Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: Guile User <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The Spritely Institute publishes A Scheme Primer (the long-requested "Guile tutorial"?)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 20:02:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+XASoVROrrYt50Om3+9N8a=WmDxWm3GZnt5_sER3tSGpbWofg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8sa12uk.fsf@dustycloud.org>
Amazing! Congrats!
On Wed, Jul 6, 2022, 12:23 PM Christine Lemmer-Webber <
cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I'm thrilled to announce that The Spritely Institute has published A
> Scheme Primer:
>
>
> https://spritely.institute/news/the-spritely-institute-publishes-a-scheme-primer.html
> https://spritely.institute/static/papers/scheme-primer.html
>
> Source:
> https://gitlab.com/spritely/scheme-primer
>
> and yes since the source is a .org file, there's a .info export:
> https://spritely.institute/static/papers/scheme-primer.info
>
> Since our core implementation of Spritely Goblins, and its associated
> whitepapers, use Guile Scheme (and Racket), we really needed a way for
> newcomers who *weren't* Schemers to understand the language. That was
> the first goal of this document, but it can really be read in two ways:
>
> - As a quick skim, it's a reasonable intro to "how to start programming
> with Scheme with no prior experience". Hey, tutorials are useful!
>
> - But also, in less than 30 pages we manage to compress a TON of
> computer science ideas from SICP, Little Schemer, etc in a way that I
> think is really, really approachable.
>
> But of course I'm biased. I'd like to know what you think!
>
> I've considered making a Guix package of the .info version. What do
> people think? Would that be useful?
>
> Happy scheming!
> - Christine
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-07 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-06 18:55 The Spritely Institute publishes A Scheme Primer (the long-requested "Guile tutorial"?) Christine Lemmer-Webber
2022-07-07 3:02 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué [this message]
2022-07-07 4:28 ` Nala Ginrut
2022-07-07 6:04 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2022-07-07 13:21 ` Luis Felipe
2022-07-07 15:28 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2022-07-07 13:20 ` Luis Felipe
2022-07-08 12:56 ` Max Brieiev
2022-07-08 22:07 ` Blake Shaw
2022-07-09 11:45 ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
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