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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 > >