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From: | Andrew Bernard |
Subject: | Re: A new Scheme tutorial |
Date: | Mon, 25 Jul 2022 17:00:10 +1000 |
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
Hi,
Last year, after I delivered a presentation on Scheme at a
French-speaking virtual meeting of LilyPond users, I was asked
if I could write that down in tutorial form, which I did as
https://tutoriel-scheme.readthedocs.io. Over the past few days,
I've set some time apart to translate that into English.
The English version can be found here:
https://scheme-tutorial.readthedocs.io
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