It has been designed for teaching so there is a lot of material on their site geared towards learning. As part of that, it has a nice set of tools that make it

It has been designed for teaching so there is a lot of material on their site geared towards learning. As part of that, it has a nice set of tools that make it easy to get started. There are a lot of books that teach intro to programming in scheme so there is plenty of offline material as well. The little schemer, SICP, How To Design Programs. See http://docs.racket-lang.org/ http://docs.racket-lang.org/. It also has an active mailing list that is quite noob friendly. EDIT: oh yes, and it is very a 'batteries included' environment. so you can worry about learning the language rather than getting your environment setup.