Re: The Spritely Institute publishes A Scheme Primer (the long-requested "Guile tutorial"?)

[Aleix Conchillo Flaqué]

Amazing! Congrats!

On Wed, Jul 6, 2022, 12:23 PM Christine Lemmer-Webber <
cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I'm thrilled to announce that The Spritely Institute has published A
> Scheme Primer:
>
>
> https://spritely.institute/news/the-spritely-institute-publishes-a-scheme-primer.html
>   https://spritely.institute/static/papers/scheme-primer.html
>
> Source:
>   https://gitlab.com/spritely/scheme-primer
>
> and yes since the source is a .org file, there's a .info export:
>   https://spritely.institute/static/papers/scheme-primer.info
>
> Since our core implementation of Spritely Goblins, and its associated
> whitepapers, use Guile Scheme (and Racket), we really needed a way for
> newcomers who *weren't* Schemers to understand the language.  That was
> the first goal of this document, but it can really be read in two ways:
>
>  - As a quick skim, it's a reasonable intro to "how to start programming
>    with Scheme with no prior experience".  Hey, tutorials are useful!
>
>  - But also, in less than 30 pages we manage to compress a TON of
>    computer science ideas from SICP, Little Schemer, etc in a way that I
>    think is really, really approachable.
>
> But of course I'm biased.  I'd like to know what you think!
>
> I've considered making a Guix package of the .info version.  What do
> people think?  Would that be useful?
>
> Happy scheming!
>  - Christine
>
>