From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Viet Le Subject: Re: Help with Learning Programming and LISP Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 21:53:05 +0100 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]:50050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i89c7-0002yU-6m for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:53:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i89c6-00083F-0u for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:53:19 -0400 Received: from mail-ua1-x92f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::92f]:40823) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i89c5-00082x-T4 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:53:17 -0400 Received: by mail-ua1-x92f.google.com with SMTP id i17so7266181ual.7 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:53:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: Zelphir Kaltstahl Cc: help-guix@gnu.org 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 things > 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 code > 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 work > (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. > > > -- Kind regards, Viet