Re: a newbie sticks his toe in the water

[Martin Grabmueller]

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 20:59:47 +0100
> 
> Hey Guys,
> 
> I've just spent about an hour reading the list archives.  As
> not only a Guile newbie, but a Scheme newbie, and just about a
> programming newbie, This probably isn't the list for me, is it?
> 
> I'd like to just use guile for some bang-path scripting. so far
> I've just tried (system "*") stuff, gluing other scripts
> together.
> 
> I guess my question is, what's a newbie to do?  Any
> suggestions?  The documentation, not just for guile, but for
> the rest of scheme, too, seems pretty lean.  This is frustrating.
> (read-line(current-input-port)) seems useful, but ...
> 
> I'll stop.  Too many questions.  Any thoughts would be
> appreciated.

A few pointers (I assume you haven't found them already...):

A great tutorial: Teach Yourself Scheme In Fixnum Days (I recommend
this one!)
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html

Some documentation (Guile-oriented):
http://www.glug.org/docbits/

Learning lecture: How to design programs:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/Teaching/Lectures/Released/Book/

The book: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/sicp.html

Some general Scheme pointers:
http://www.schemers.org/

And, of course, you can do a web search for `+scheme +tutorial' and
you will have enough to read for the rest of the year ;)

HTH,
  'martin
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