[email protected] writes:
> We learn C# at school... and I'd like to write beautiful free
> software. However, I'm still a bloody beginner. So could you give me
> please some nice book tips about C, C++ and of course Guile? It
> would be sooo awesome.
AFAIK, C# is quite different from C or C++. It is my understanding
that it is closer to Objective-C or Smalltalk. Don't be misled by the
syntax, what matters is the semantics. That said I don't know
anything about C# so I may be wrong.
Probably the most effective thing you can do to learn how to write
beautiful software, is to study SICP:
SICP = Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
http://www.codepoetics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Topics:SICP_in_other_languages
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/lisp/sicp/
http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-plt/
As you may note with the link SICP_in_other_languages, SICP is not
specifically about scheme (it just happen to use scheme for the
examples and exercises since it's a little language that's easy to
learn).
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
