Re: A new Scheme tutorial

[Andrew Bernard]

Hello Jean,

This is a great effort.

A couple of suggestions. I suppose there are a few web pages with lists of recommended texts for Scheme, but I think it would be great if you added this one to the 'where to go from here' section:

Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days (ds26gte.github.io)

Also, the link to the SICP text is only for the companion site for the book, not the text. I strongly urge anybody who is involved with Scheme to obtain this book, and keep it on the desk and read it a dozen times. A superb classic computer science text, quite unparalleled. Scheme was the standard language taught at MIT for many years. A large number of people are disappointed and dismayed that I believe they now teach Python instead. While Python is a nice language. Scheme teaches a much higher level of abstract thought, and even if you never use it, it makes you a better programmer.

And amazingly, here are Abelson and Sussman lecturing MIT 6.001 in 1986, the complete series, for employees at HP.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE18841CABEA24090

Andrew

On 12/07/2022 9:28 am, Jean Abou Samra wrote:

> Hi,
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>       Last year, after I delivered a presentation on Scheme at a
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>       French-speaking virtual meeting of LilyPond users, I was asked
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>       if I could write that down in tutorial form, which I did as
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>       https://tutoriel-scheme.readthedocs.io. Over the past few days,
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>       I've set some time apart to translate that into English.
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>       The English version can be found here:
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>       https://scheme-tutorial.readthedocs.io
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