On 8/22/2017 6:08 AM, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote:
Will "The Seasoned Schemer" be understandable for people who did not read the "The
Little Schemer"? And is what is in there directly applicable in Racket (I guess it is, because
of Racket's background, but I better ask beforehand!)
Yes, and sort of.
Racket is derived from Scheme - whatever you learn about Scheme will be
relevant to programming in Racket. But all the system things that real
programs depend on: threads, networking, file i/o, etc. - all of those
are outside the scope of the language. Learning Scheme will not
necessarily help you, e.g., write a multi-threaded program or a TCP
based service ... for that you need to learn Racket's libraries and how
to use the facilities that they provide.
So far I've read some part of SICP (Chapter 1 & 2), part of Realm of Racket and
did some small Racket projects.
Not a bad start. I'd add The Scheme Programming Language by R.Kent
Dybvig. It's better as a reference work than a tutorial, but it does
pack pretty much all you need to know about Scheme into one place.
George
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