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Wow, I would really like to get this book to complete my set of the Little Schemer, the Seasoned Schemer and the Reasoned Schemer. But 55$ is almost twice as ex
by dark-star 4y ago
Wow, I would really like to get this book to complete my set of the Little Schemer, the Seasoned Schemer and the Reasoned Schemer. But 55$ is almost twice as expensive as the other books. Yes, it is bigger than those but still...
Have to think about this for a while :)
- scruple 4y agoThere's also "The Little Typer" and "The Little Prover."
- troupe 4y agoYou aren't helping him. :)
- legerdemain 4y agoIn the same series, there's also "A Little Java" by Matthias Felleisen, one of the creators of Racket (a popular Lisp). https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262561150/a-little-java-a-few-patterns/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262561150/a-little-java-a-few-p...
- tjr 4y agoAnd The Little MLer.
- naraic0o 4y agoWhich, it seems, is out of print and I guess because a lot of people want a complete set of this series, costs > 500USD to buy used?? Woah. I should get my hands on the others while they're still in print.
- bainsfather 4y agoIs it still good? I see it was published in 1997. I like the style of these books, and might read this one - I'm just worried that Java has changed quite a bit since then. Is it still, say, 90% OK?
- legerdemain 4y agoIt's mostly a novelty today. Felleisen is a programming language theorist, and him writing a little Java tutorial sounds absurd. The book itself takes you on a journey to reinvent the Visitor pattern, in a version of Java that predates generics. You can probably find a better explainer for the Visitor pattern in Java.
- bainsfather 4y agoThanks. I see it for sale for £4 second hand, so maybe I should buy it for the novelty value alone. I presume I shouldn't try to refresh my java from it though.
- dark-star 4y agoyeah, I just realized that too. screw it, I'll just grab all of them ;-)
- sritchie 4y agoRated on dollars per hour of brain upgrades, thinking and enjoyment, it doesn’t get better than a good book.
- dunham 4y agoThe little schemer is $40 now, reasoned schemer is $30, and the little typer is $38 (about twice as thick as the other two). I had to think on the little schemer, but grabbed it because my ten year old said that the little typer was "interesting", and I thought he might learn something from it. Probably should finish working through what I have before getting another, though.
- kccqzy 4y agoYour ten-year-old was interested in dependent types? You can turn to the back of the book and show him that truths begin with 𝚪 ⊢