On Dec 28, 2007 2:01 PM, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > Personally, I would suggest going the "The Little Schemer" and "The > > Seasoned Schemer" before SICP. "The Seasoned Schemer" gives a really > > nice "hands-on" introduction to the theoretical concepts that SICP digs > > into. > > Actually, this isn't a bad idea. I have gone through "The Little > Schemer" and now understand recursion much better. I'm still trying to > grok the Y-combinator though. That is the near final thing the book > covers. > > I have "The Seasoned Schemer" but haven't yet dug into it. > > I also have "Simply Scheme" which I have read through the first few > chapters of. It seems to focus on more practical application issues than > SICP which is a lot of theory. It bills itself as the book to read to > familiarize yourself with the basics of Scheme before diving into SICP. > > -- > Tracy R Reed Read my blog at http://ultraviolet.org > Key fingerprint = D4A8 4860 535C ABF8 BA97 25A6 F4F2 1829 9615 02AD > Non-GPG signed mail gets read only if I can find it among the spam. > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list >
I never heard of these two books. I've looked at them quickly, and from what I can tell, they teach you Scheme in order to understand various computer science topics. The way I understand SICP is that they teach various computer science topics, then demonstrate that with Lisp. By going through SICP, you won't be a Lisp programmer necessarily. For myself, I'm more interested in the theory, and I really don't care what the language is used to demonstrate. Plus the history of the course, the available resources etc has me leaning more towards jumping straight in to SICP. -- Mark Schoonover http://ka6wke.blogspot.com http://marksitblog.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give me ambiguity, or give me something else! --kelsey hudson -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
