If you're looking for a relatively gentle introduction to Scheme, I can make a few suggestions, but as you probably already know, it's not easy to grasp from far away. Maybe just ask questions? Many people, even experienced programmers have great difficulty understanding scheme and other lisp-like languages...
Here are some ideas:
Want to learn by watching video?
- 20 hours of very high quality instruction from the masters of Scheme:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
the same thing is available in perhaps easier form as a book:
"The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" a.k.a. SICP
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
(also available for purchase in stores, amazon, etc.)
A detailed overview is on-line at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language)
A great source of reference is:
http://www.schemers.org/Hope this helps!
Cheers,
GF.
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From: "James E. Bailey" <
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To: John Mandereau <
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:14:18 +0100
Subject: Re: question about transposing an interval of a 4th
Am 22.12.2008 um 14:04 schrieb John Mandereau:
Le lundi 22 décembre 2008 à 10:56 +0100, James E. Bailey a écrit :
Am 22.12.2008 um 03:52 schrieb Graham Percival:
Oh, I've read the Learning Manual cover to cover (well, it may have
been changed since then, it was some months ago), and I don't
understand Scheme.
Indeed: there is currently no thing in all LilyPond documentation that
introduces Scheme programming for non-programmers.
And there shouldn't be, in my opinion.
Give a man a fish, teach a man to fish...
Apparently you, valentin, nicolas and John are the only people on this
list who know how to fish. And no one's sharing how.
We can't share this on this list, but it'd be cool to have an
introduction to programming based on Scheme and demonstrating
applications in LilyPond; however, even this is a lot of work and there
are more urgent and basic things to do in the next 2 months.
Given that, I'd say that the easiest solution would be to just tell us.
Incidentally, he did make it clear, he wants a diatonic fourth. So, c sharp in trumpet one is g natural in trumpet 2, not g sharp.