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

[Nala Ginrut]

Thank you very much!
I'll recommend it to more people!

Best regarts.


On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 11:03 AM Aleix Conchillo Flaqué <aconchillo@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>