3 ms·
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 t
by 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 agoThey'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 agoI 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 agoBe 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.