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Ooh! Almost forgot: The Little Schemer. It's actually (mostly) pure R5RS, but if you want to do Real Work with scheme, it won't be super helpful, because it's p
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Ooh! Almost forgot: The Little Schemer. It's actually (mostly) pure R5RS, but if you want to do Real Work with scheme, it won't be super helpful, because it's primarily trying to teach recursion. However, it and its sequels (also R5RS mostly) are all worthwhile reading if you've got the time, and I'd highly reccomend them.
- nickpsecurity 10y ago"it won't be super helpful, because it's primarily trying to teach recursion." I was literally just rolling my eyes as I read that in the book itself. ;) Table of contents on Fixnum looks good. I still have SICP somewhere but couldn't remember if it was easy or if their style was still relevant. I'll check it out again.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoEasy? No. Relevant? Yes. It's really about learning CS, but it'll teach you a lot of Scheme along the way. Although it notably skips some parts of the language, namely macros and I think some of the I/O stuff. Also dynamic-wind. Most are not hard to grasp, but important in Real scheme programming. Except that you also have to understand why dynamic-wind has tot deal with call/cc, and the resultant problems. But that's not too hard to grasp.