On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 07:26:25PM +0100, Rolf Meinecke wrote: > > > As a complete scheme/LISP beginner I had a hard time to get into the > language. Googling for Fluxus, scheme and racket made me an expert in > contemporary art, financial fraud systems and tennis equipment. I found it > hard to find relevant code examples. The racket documentation site is quite > complete, but lacking simple examples.
I recognise the issue. Scheme as a language requires a certain way of thinking and that has to "click" with/in you, that can take a while. One resource I found useful is Gabor's videos; http://vimeo.com/gabor/videos With some pausing and keeping the Racket site at hand to look up interesting bits you can learn a lot. Also good for me was starting some larger projects and continually cleaning up code until all of the ugly bits looked like self-evident simple statements. In my experience well-written Scheme makes stuff look simple. Another interesting way of learning is to look for a aspiring DJ and practice with them; especially vinyl DJ's need to practice for hours and with the "rec" output from the mixer to your computer's audio in you can motivate each other in a fun way. I hope some of those tips will be of use to you, in my experience Scheme's learning curve has a big bump early on after which things become a lot more fun but even that bump can be made fun. Yours, Kas.
