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vlog about Guile
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randomlooser |
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vlog about Guile |
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Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:37:36 +0100 |
Hello
I'm Catonano, from a brand new email address
I'm trying to diminish the role of Google in my life, gradually
I made a couple of videos about Guile
They are an experiment
In the videos I explain, in my own terms, how to read a line delimited
file in Guile scheme
Here they are
https://peertube.social/videos/watch/playlist/03ebdbfb-7285-4d1f-8787-01de111a6d6d
It's not a groudbreaking use case
My assumption is that the person(s) watching these videos may be a
beginner, not only in scheme or Guile, but in programming in general
In fact, I go through what I think is the discovery process in
painstaking detail and slowliness
I was inspired by this talk
https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/legacy_docs/
and this blog post
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/learning-a-language/
I mention both in the introduction
In the past I hinted at how I feel that the Guile documentation is
lacking in some regards
So I made these videos as an experiment
In the future I could try to cover more use cases
Some remarks:
It's not written material, it's video
This alone is a stark departure from the usual style of materials
discussing Guile
It's not feature oriented, it's use case oriented
I introduce open-input-file, read-line and with-input-from-file as the
need arises, not based on where they are in the manual
It's incomplete and maybe even incorrect in some aspects
But it strives to provide the watcher with a bit of immediate reward
This is another striking departure from the usual
I understand that to many people here, the case of reding a file in
painstaking detail and slowness is not exactly fun
You need to put yourself in someone else's shoes to watch this
Anyway, i thought it was useful to mention this here
Thanks
- vlog about Guile,
randomlooser <=