> On Jan 13, 2018, at 11:14 AM, Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Anyway, I hope to understand how the Y-combinator works with the help of "The > Little Schemer", which I am reading currently. I am not at that chapter yet. > I am taking my time, first thinking through the stuff and later typing it > into the machine and thinking about it again, sometimes noticing some detail > when I type the code and sometimes making a little experiment with that code. > Already on my way through "The Little Schemer" I hit some useful procedures, > which helped me with a totally unrelated problem when coding my blog in > Racket. So it's definitely useful.
Yes, that’s the correct approach to reading, something I have to teach most college freshmen (and I fail many of them or do they fail me?). > "The Little Schemer" is starting slow for people who have programmed before, > but seeing, that I am only half-way through and already got some interesting > knowledge from it, one should not underestimate the acceleration in this book. :-) — Matthias -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
