I love the Little/Seasoned Schemer books. They feel lightweight, both physically and in content, and I managed to work through them fairly quickly. It was surprisingly fun. SICP/HTDP/PAIP, on the other hand, have more of the textbook feel which has so far kept me from working through them.
The only thing that's kind of bitten me in the ass is that when I started Clojure, I wrote a lot "lower level" fns, in the style of the book. By this I mean lots of explicit recursion with cons cells, accumulators, etc. when in fact there were already much higher level constructs (map/reduce/filter/etc) I should have been using. Still, you quickly learn, and it's nice knowing the plumbing. Rob On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:45 PM, cody koeninger <c...@koeninger.org> wrote: > > > On Mar 23, 10:37 am, Sean Devlin <francoisdev...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey folks, >> I'm looking to add to my bookshelf. I was wondering what this groups >> experience with the Schemer series of books is? >> >> Sean > > > Little, seasoned, + the little MLer are awesome, only thing that comes > close in terms of pedagogical quality is How To Design Programs. > Haven't read reasoned. A little java isn't that great, that style > doesn't really mesh well with java. > > The little schemer may be very basic, but given some of the job > applicants I've seen, we'd all be better off if every programmer had > read it at least once. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words > "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
