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There is a book called The Little Schemer (was The Little Lisper) - a book all about recursion. This is a quote from a review: Little Schemer is without a doub

There is a book called The Little Schemer (was The Little Lisper) - a book all about recursion. This is a quote from a review: Little Schemer is without a doubt one of the best books I have ever read on the subject of recursion, and what is interesting because they never really go into a formal definition of what recursion is, as most texts on computer science try to. Instead they show the reader time and time again what recursion is, while providing a great series of rules (commandments) on how to get the most out of recursion, particually in a tail-recursive language like Scheme. http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-Schemer-4th-Edition/product-reviews/0262560992/ref=cm_cr_dp_synop?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending#RCZ626B7P2J1C http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-Schemer-4th-Edition/product... You can read more about The Little Lisper here: http://thelittlelisper.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/little-lisper-chapter-1-toys.html http://thelittlelisper.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/little-lisper... Or you can read about working through it in Clojure here: http://juliangamble.com/blog/2012/07/20/the-little-schemer-in-clojure-chapter-1/ http://juliangamble.com/blog/2012/07/20/the-little-schemer-i...

davexunit 12y ago
The Little Schemer is fantastic. I recently picked up The Seasoned Schemer as well, but haven't gotten a chance to really dive into yet. I'm looking forward to seeing how the authors tackle more advanced topics using their out of the ordinary teaching style. Now, go cons a cake onto your mouth!
- Jtsummers 12y ago
  They've also got a 3rd book in the series, The Reasoned Schemer [1]. I didn't finish working through it (life and work and other things), but it's pretty good as well. [1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer
  - davexunit 12y ago
    I want to pick that one up once I've gotten most of the way through The Seasoned Schemer, or if I see it through the window of the MIT Press store and can't resist.
  - AimHere 12y ago
    Be warned that, despite the name, the Reasoned Schemer is only tangentially about scheme; it focuses on miniKanren, a somewhere-in-the-Prolog-ballpark logic programming language created by one of Friedman's students, that is implemented as an extension to the Scheme language proper (among other languages, most notably as the clojure core.logic library). Also Friedman and Byrd did show up to a few clojure talks and seemed, from the online videos, to be highly entertaining - I remember their using miniKanren to automatically generate scheme programs that evaluated to 6 being particularly fun.
agumonkey 12y ago
I remember reading bits of one of them. It was so dull and empty. Until you click.
DonHopkins 12y ago
I'm going to go have myself a nice peanut butter and jelly sandwich now.

davexunit 12y ago

The Little Schemer is fantastic. I recently picked up The Seasoned Schemer as well, but haven't gotten a chance to really dive into yet. I'm looking forward to seeing how the authors tackle more advanced topics using their out of the ordinary teaching style. Now, go cons a cake onto your mouth!

Jtsummers 12y ago
They've also got a 3rd book in the series, The Reasoned Schemer [1]. I didn't finish working through it (life and work and other things), but it's pretty good as well. [1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer
- davexunit 12y ago
  I want to pick that one up once I've gotten most of the way through The Seasoned Schemer, or if I see it through the window of the MIT Press store and can't resist.
- AimHere 12y ago
  Be warned that, despite the name, the Reasoned Schemer is only tangentially about scheme; it focuses on miniKanren, a somewhere-in-the-Prolog-ballpark logic programming language created by one of Friedman's students, that is implemented as an extension to the Scheme language proper (among other languages, most notably as the clojure core.logic library). Also Friedman and Byrd did show up to a few clojure talks and seemed, from the online videos, to be highly entertaining - I remember their using miniKanren to automatically generate scheme programs that evaluated to 6 being particularly fun.

agumonkey 12y ago

I remember reading bits of one of them. It was so dull and empty. Until you click.

DonHopkins 12y ago

I'm going to go have myself a nice peanut butter and jelly sandwich now.