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 23:15:45 +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]:38701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i8AuA-0006Mg-1W for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:16:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i8Au8-0007pL-28 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:16:01 -0400 Received: from mail-vs1-xe34.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::e34]:35926) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i8Au6-0007kO-3b for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:16:00 -0400 Received: by mail-vs1-xe34.google.com with SMTP id v19so9709511vsv.3 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:15:57 -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 Thank you Zelphir, this looks great! Viet On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at 22:24, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > 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 o= r > 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 < > zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de> 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 > > -- Kind regards, Viet