Scheme - Scheme Training

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mike.eubank@gmail.com

2005-02-03, 4:00 pm

Hello,
I am new to the group and was hoping you might be able to point me
in the direction of some good scheme training material. I am an IT
staffer who has just been put in charge of a large implementaion
project fpr a program written in scheme. I am not familiar at al with
it. I have found the learn ot program and scheme books online and they
have been beneficial but not as comprehensive as I would have liked.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks,
JuJuMan

Anton van Straaten

2005-02-03, 4:00 pm

mike.eubank@gmail.com wrote:
> I am new to the group and was hoping you might be able to point me
> in the direction of some good scheme training material. I am an IT
> staffer who has just been put in charge of a large implementaion
> project fpr a program written in scheme. I am not familiar at al with
> it. I have found the learn ot program and scheme books online and they
> have been beneficial but not as comprehensive as I would have liked.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Check which implementation of Scheme is being used, if you don't already
know. That could make quite a difference to what you need to learn.

If you're looking for something comprehensive, one of the most comprehensive
books specifically about Scheme is here:
http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/

In case you haven't already seen it, this tutorial is worth going through:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t...t-y-scheme.html

You might also find the Scheme Cookbook helpful:
http://schemecookbook.org/
It's not a tutorial, but it has examples of how to do many common tasks.

There are plenty of other books out there, including a few which will teach
important programming principles while they teach you Scheme, such as
www.htdp.org and http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ . Even if you're an
experienced programmer, Scheme has some features that are unfamiliar to
people with a traditional programming language background, and you may need
to learn about those.

Anton

JuJuMan

2005-02-03, 8:59 pm

I appreciate it, I will know much more in about a w

when the app is
installed. I know the traditional IT languages of VB, C# etc so Scheme
is different to say the least. I was suprised that a commercial
application was written in scheme due to its realitive obscurity. I
suppose that is par ignorance speaking but I have not been able to find
to much in terms of tutorials and examples. The HTP source was very
good for me, however if someone wrote a specific how to for scheme they
could corner a niche market.

Thanks,
JuJuMan

Hamlet

2005-02-11, 4:00 am

Hey,

I have got a good book on Scheme. It's called Exploring Computer
Science with Scheme by Oliver Grillmeyer. It's in brand new condition
and I am selling it for just 10$. Please let me know if you are
interested. My email address is ahikodi@gmail.com.

Ahi

JuJuMan wrote:
> I appreciate it, I will know much more in about a w

when the app
is
> installed. I know the traditional IT languages of VB, C# etc so
Scheme
> is different to say the least. I was suprised that a commercial
> application was written in scheme due to its realitive obscurity. I
> suppose that is par ignorance speaking but I have not been able to
find
> to much in terms of tutorials and examples. The HTP source was very
> good for me, however if someone wrote a specific how to for scheme
they
> could corner a niche market.
>
> Thanks,
> JuJuMan

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