From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Cc: Guile User <guile-user@gnu.org>, Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>
Subject: Re: lat? and atom? not in guile?
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:55:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=RwfZxx_ihGPVmij+NV0G6JrQ2Z-SOzfjGObotQZS0q_JG1w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_Q8O7yqEWVvQRrOv4kB3gPoAjYzTK8Zc7Tj7qr-ri8u5g@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:40 AM, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:37 AM, Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> Oh hey David! Thanks for the explanation! Maybe I need to take another
>> look at that book then. I found it a little repetitive, but I am
>> probably not quite grasping some of the fundamentals.
>>
>
> It's meant to be repetitive. It's explicitly compared in the introduction
> to Hanon's finger exercises for the piano: C-E-F-G-A-G-F-E,
> D-F-G-A-B-A-G-F, E-G-A-B-C-B-A-D and so on forever, up the scale and down
> in every key. Boring as hell, but just the thing to get fluency into your
> fingers.
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. :)
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-20 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ 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 [this message]
2018-06-20 16:55 ` Joshua Branson
2018-06-20 23:47 ` Scheme books [was: lat? and atom? not in guile?] Matt Wette
2018-06-21 13:44 ` 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
[not found] <mailman.107.1529424021.11270.guile-user@gnu.org>
2018-06-19 17:33 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2018-06-20 10:15 ` Shakthi Kannan
2018-06-20 14:33 ` Joshua Branson
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