[plt-scheme] Re: Can I read HTDP offline?

From: Richard Cleis (rcleis at mac.com)
Date: Sun Dec 20 11:30:42 EST 2009

I was hoping to finally learn a business model that merges the  
Internet with the intellectual property of professorship.  Perhaps  
someone can suggest a text to, uh, download.

RAC

On Dec 20, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu>  
wrote:

> This book is utterly orthogonal to the goals of HtDP in both important
> dimensions: HtDP does not teach a language, and it does teach a design
> methodology.  I have no idea what its connection might be to this
> thread.
>
> Next up in this thread: Project Gutenberg link for the Scarlet  
> Pimpernel.
>
> (Yeah, here: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/60)
>
> Shriram
>
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Karl Winterling <kwinterling at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>> You may also like ``Learn You a Haskell for Great Good,'' though it
>> has no cartoon foxes, I'm afraid.
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Ricardo
>> <ricardo.soaresdelima at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks Karl! I'll check your suggestions.
>>>
>>> On 19 dez, 15:57, Karl Winterling <kwinterl... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Karl Winterling  
>>>> <kwinterl... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> You can get a PDF versions of _Concrete Abstractions: Exploring
>>>>> Computer Science Using Scheme_ at
>>>>> http://gustavus.edu/+max/concrete-abstractions.htmland _Simply
>>>>> Scheme_ athttp://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html
>>>>
>>>>> Both of these textbooks are good introductions to functional
>>>>> programming and don't assume you're a total math geek (HTDP is  
>>>>> good
>>>>> also). For _Concrete Abstractions_, choose the ``Pretty Big''  
>>>>> language
>>>>> level and everything should work except for graphics. For _Simply
>>>>> Scheme_ (full disclosure: I know Brian Harvey personally and I  
>>>>> learned
>>>>> to program with this book), Danny Yoo wrote a DrScheme language  
>>>>> level
>>>>> with correct primitives that's in the planet repository.
>>>>
>>>>> If, on the other hand, you are a math geek (or you enjoy pain, or
>>>>> whatever) get Neil Van Dyke's texinfo version of SICP and use  
>>>>> sicp.plt
>>>>
>>>>> ---Karl
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Ricardo
>>>>> <ricardo.soaresdel... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi there! I'm going to stay offline this end of year and I want  
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> look into functional programming. I've got the DrScheme  
>>>>>> Installed and
>>>>>> I want to read the htdp book. Can I read this book on my  
>>>>>> laptop? It
>>>>>> this is possible, how can I do that?
>>>>>> Thanks and happy end of year to you!
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