From: Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>
To: "Aleix Conchillo Flaqué" <aconchillo@gmail.com>
Cc: Christine Lemmer-Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>,
Guile User <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The Spritely Institute publishes A Scheme Primer (the long-requested "Guile tutorial"?)
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 12:28:55 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPjoZoc7juH-_6G=8HYJcQdY=M0K-fLNS34Q5=V0cS_nC23Bkg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+XASoVROrrYt50Om3+9N8a=WmDxWm3GZnt5_sER3tSGpbWofg@mail.gmail.com>
Thank you very much!
I'll recommend it to more people!
Best regarts.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 11:03 AM Aleix Conchillo Flaqué <aconchillo@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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 4:28 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
2022-07-07 4:28 ` Nala Ginrut [this message]
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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