On 7/13/2021 10:13 AM, joseph turco wrote:
Hello,
Im am looking at learning a programming language, and have been
bouncing around with scheme/racket/dyalog APL/squeak. upon
investigation of scheme and racket, i found that in regards to racket,
there really isn't a "Beginners book" that teaches the language. The
only beginner book i could really see being close to teaching the
language is HtDP, but that doesn't /technically/ teach racket, but
BSL. For scheme, im able to find beginner books, unless im not looking
deep enough. Maybe if you fine folk don't mind pointing me in the
right direction? Please excuse my ignorance.
-- Joseph T
Welcome.
Racket[*] largely is based on Scheme, and so much of what you learn
about Scheme will transfer. Racket supports R5RS and R6RS Scheme as
legacy languages, so you can learn about Scheme /using/ Racket and its
tools. Then when you are more comfortable, you can transition to using
the Racket module language instead.
George
[*] At least the untyped Racket language. Racket really is a /suite/
of languages: there also is a typed Racket, a lazy Racket, and various
DSLs (domain languages) which compile to and (mostly) freely intermix
with Racket.
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