On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 14:59 -0300, hellekin wrote: > Hi, > > a simple suggestion on IRC turned into a quick compilation of useful > resources related to learning Guile, and thanks to the welcoming > community, quickly developed into the following idea... > > Implementation time: about one hour for the bulk of it. (counter > already started ;o) Serious time and resources could be thrown at it > with sufficient interest and some funding, but to get started, nothing > is required. > > Given the current effort of the GNU project to introduce a GNU > Development Network, and the central role Guile is given in the GNU > project as the interfacing language of choice, > > 1. Make a wiki page at http://libreplanet.org/GNU/Guile > > That page would contain a short introduction to Guile, for people to > get into it according to their available time (inspired by > http://norvig.com/21-days.html): > > - no time: http://abstrusegoose.com/249 > - minutes: http://www.web-artanis.com/scheme.html (maybe a specific > entry* for Guile could go to http://learnxinyminutes.com/ ?) > - hour: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/guile-tut/tutorial.html > - days: ? Maybe > http://download.plt-scheme.org/doc/203/html/t-y-scheme/index.htm would > be interesting to update/adapt? > - weeks/months: fork > https://gitorious.org/learn-x-the-hard-way/learn-x-the-hard-way > (ulysses says it would take him a year to write it) > - years: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ > > More resources: > http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/resources.html#guile_resources > > "The community lives on IRC and email." (link, link) > > * inspiration: http://bzg.fr/learn-emacs-lisp-in-15-minutes.html >
Thanks for collecting them! ;-) > 2. Move http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ideas.html to the wiki > > Ideas are cheap: that's typically something very suited for a wiki, so > that anyone can edit the page without having to bother a webmaster > into the process. Cut the middleman. > > Tasks for the webmaster: link to the wiki :) > Yup, actually Guile wiki was discussed few months ago. But it's delayed since I don't have idea about how to organize the text. I wish there could be more guys get interested in Guile, say, after one finished his/her SICP course, there'd be a practical way to do some real work with the Scheme experiences, rather than just exercises or toy. I think Guile provides such a way, since it's not designed for fun or academic, and it's getting important role in the future architecture of GNU operating system. In spite of "learn xx in yy minutes", I found it's popular on "XX for YY language programers", like this: http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-for-ruby-programmers We may borrow something from Ruby (their community is so good): http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ruby-from-other-languages/ However, we still provide topics like: * "pro Guile" * "dig deep into Guile internal" * "design pattern in Guile" * "think in Guile" which maybe more profound. ;-P Anyway, all above topics are worthy doing, but my concern is that we still lack of more rich and big/huge code-base in real world to explain the things in a convincing way. Fortunately, we have something on the way. I'll pick "learn Guile in hard way", it's a good start for "quick-learn-then-do" users. But wiki is a huge work in long term way, we need more volunteer for sharing. No matter articles or cool codes snippets. > > 3. Make a http://libreplanet.org/Group:Guile > > That way people can advertise the language, and give other people > awareness of the community. That could as well make it easier to find > "Guilers near you" and other co-learning groups. > cool~ > 3.1 Make a "Guile badge" to link to the Group:Guile > > That should reflect the liveliness and humor of the community. > Yes, I like it~ Comments? Thanks! > Here. > > nalaginrut? :) > > == > hk >
