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Re: Scheme books [was: lat? and atom? not in guile?]
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Joshua Branson |
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Re: Scheme books [was: lat? and atom? not in guile?] |
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Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:44:52 -0400 |
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Matt Wette <address@hidden> writes:
> On 06/20/2018 07:55 AM, Thompson, David wrote
> [regarding "The Little Schemer"]:
>> 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. :)
>
> And on this topic, I'm currently reading 'The Reasoned Schemer,' written
> in the same style. The style gets the stuff into my head w/o resorting to
> trying out problems on the computer (yet).
Hmmm. I've heard about the seasoned schemer, but not the reasoned one.
I also have downloaded Structure and Interpretation of Computer
Programs. I need to actually spend some time going through it.
I've just got several programming projects that I want to do, and I need
to remind myself that I probably can't learn it all at once. :)
>
> I have also read
> Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
> The Scheme Programming Language
>
> Matt
- lat? and atom? not in guile?, Joshua Branson, 2018/06/19
- Re: lat? and atom? not in guile?, Thompson, David, 2018/06/19
- Re: lat? and atom? not in guile?, Joshua Branson, 2018/06/20
- Re: lat? and atom? not in guile?, John Cowan, 2018/06/20
- Re: lat? and atom? not in guile?, Thompson, David, 2018/06/20
- Re: lat? and atom? not in guile?, Joshua Branson, 2018/06/20
- Scheme books [was: lat? and atom? not in guile?], Matt Wette, 2018/06/20
- Re: Scheme books [was: lat? and atom? not in guile?],
Joshua Branson <=
- Re: Scheme books [was: lat? and atom? not in guile?], Matt Wette, 2018/06/21
- Re: lat? and atom? not in guile?, Joshua Branson, 2018/06/20
Re: lat? and atom? not in guile?, John Cowan, 2018/06/19