Matt Wette <matt.we...@gmail.com> writes: > On 06/20/2018 07:55 AM, Thompson, David wrote > [regarding "The Little Schemer"]: >> 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. :) > > And on this topic, I'm currently reading 'The Reasoned Schemer,' written > in the same style. The style gets the stuff into my head w/o resorting to > trying out problems on the computer (yet).
Hmmm. I've heard about the seasoned schemer, but not the reasoned one. I also have downloaded Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I need to actually spend some time going through it. I've just got several programming projects that I want to do, and I need to remind myself that I probably can't learn it all at once. :) > > I have also read > Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs > The Scheme Programming Language > > Matt
