Tracy R Reed wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Then I recommend "The Little Schemer" and "The Seasoned Schemer".
They look silly, but just do the exercises. They tend to be in
byte-sized chunks that you can do at your own speed.
I have to recommend "The Little Schemer" also. It really helped me get
recursion. But I still don't quite understand the Y combinator or the
value of fixed point functions. Need to reread those parts. I have "The
Seasoned Schemer" on my bookshelf also which I will dive into once I
really understand all of the first book.
No, don't wait. The Y combinator and fixed point functions are not
required to deal with The Seasoned Schemer.
The Seasoned Schemer is quite a bit about continuations.
The Y combinator and fixed point functions help when you start talking
about writing things in Continuation Passing Style. However, The
Seasoned Schemer doesn't require that. It gives you a few commandments
for dealing with continuations that work until you get your head wrapped
around them.
-a
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