As I understand it, Scheme was intended to be a dialect suitable for teaching programming. The usual first texts are The Little Schemer, How to Design Programs

As I understand it, Scheme was intended to be a dialect suitable for teaching programming. The usual first texts are The Little Schemer, How to Design Programs (https://htdp.org/ https://htdp.org/ but apparently a third edition is forthcoming: https://felleisen.org/matthias/HtDP3e/index.html https://felleisen.org/matthias/HtDP3e/index.html) and the inestimable SICP: http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13918465 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13918465) "A bad day writing code in Scheme is better than a good day writing code in C." —David Stigant In another man's opinion, "Common Lisp is the best language to learn programming": https://oneofus.la/have-emacs-will-hack/2011-10-30-common-lisp-is-the-best-language-to-learn-programming.html https://oneofus.la/have-emacs-will-hack/2011-10-30-common-li... Another resource for learning Common Lisp is Stuart C. Shapiro's Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach: https://cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/ https://cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/