"Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> writes: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:40 AM, John Cowan <co...@ccil.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:37 AM, Joshua Branson <jbra...@fastmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >>> Oh hey David! Thanks for the explanation! Maybe I need to take another >>> look at that book then. I found it a little repetitive, but I am >>> probably not quite grasping some of the fundamentals. >>> >> >> It's meant to be repetitive. It's explicitly compared in the introduction >> to Hanon's finger exercises for the piano: C-E-F-G-A-G-F-E, >> D-F-G-A-B-A-G-F, E-G-A-B-C-B-A-D and so on forever, up the scale and down >> in every key. Boring as hell, but just the thing to get fluency into your >> fingers. > > It's repetitive but honestly I found that the comedic writing made the > exercises very entertaining. I was rarely bored. I don't play the > piano, but I do play drums, and the equivalent to Hanon's finger > exercises is an old book called Stick Control, which is definitely in > the boring as hell category! I'm glad that Lisp beginners have > something more fun available. :)
hahaha. Well thanks for the fresh perspective. > > - Dave
