From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zelphir Kaltstahl Subject: Re: Help with Learning Programming and LISP Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 23:24:24 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57137) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i8A6J-000643-9i for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:24:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i8A6H-0006WW-Q0 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:24:31 -0400 Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:45019) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i8A6H-0006Uq-7s for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:24:29 -0400 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C300A16005E for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 23:24:25 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Viet Le Cc: help-guix@gnu.org There is at least one SRFI for a unit test library. Is that sufficient as "support for TDD"? https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-64/srfi-64.html On 9/11/19 10:53 PM, Viet Le wrote: > Thanks for your recommendation. May I ask if Scheme has support for > TDD or are there any TDD libraries/frameworks in Scheme? A quick > online search didn=E2=80=99t show desired results. I found only TDD for= Clojure. > > Thanks, > Viet > > On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 22:24, Zelphir Kaltstahl > > wrote: > > I would like to add "The Little Schemer" to the list of good books > suggested here. Damn did I get a lot out of that little book. It > starts > at the very beginning, but accelerates quickly. > > I would say I got more out of SICP than The Little Schemer, but > both are > phenomenal books in my opinion. SICP has many many pages and > covers many > topics. More than are treated in The Little Schemer, but the > content in > The Little Schemer is very enlightening as well, just like many thi= ngs > in SICP were for me. In The Little Schemer I read multiple chapters > multiple times to get a better understanding and often was rewarded= by > understanding it better and even better, when I later typed that co= de > into my machine and wrote comments for everything. I am far from > finished with SICP, but I had a lot of "Aha!" moments with it too. > Both > highly recommended books, but they might take also some time to get > through, if you have a job and not much time to spend on the books. > > Haven't read Practical Common Lisp. > > Realm of Racket was a little disappointing for me personally, as in= my > version there was some code missing and thus some example did not w= ork > (the procedure `decay` is missing in my book). I also did not buy > in to > the "Big bang" thingy that much. I would have preferred to write > something on top of a minimalistic 2D engine instead. In general > is it a > nice idea though, to get content across by writing small games. > > I still have PAIP (Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming= ) > here and am not sure how to sort it in. So far it has been good > content, > but I also have not progressed very far into it yet. I am > rewriting the > code in Scheme so far, when I try out the code of it. > > > --=20 > Kind regards, > Viet