[plt-dev] number of HtDP graduates

As a foundation, sure but the book would also need to include some  
more real-world topics like web programming. I'm thinking of something  
like "Practical PLT Scheme" patterned after Mr. Seibel's excellent  
tome on CL.

--Kevin
On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:53 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote:

> Does "Teach yourself scheme in fixnum days" fit the bill?
>
> ?is it available on print on demand?
>
> S.
>
> On Wednesday, October 14, 2009, Kevin A. Smith
> <kevin at hypotheticalabs.com> wrote:
>> I'd love to see an practical Scheme book make it to the bookshelves  
>> if for no other reason than to be able to point my friends and co- 
>> workers at it.
>>
>> The Pragmatic Programmers recently published a book on Clojure and  
>> O'Reilly has a CL book on the way. It seems to me there'd be  
>> interest in PLT Scheme, too, since mainstream programming culture  
>> is (very) slowly waking from their Java-Java-Java-Java coma.
>>
>> --Kevin
>> On Oct 13, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Grant Rettke wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:01 AM, David Storrs <david.storrs at gmail.com 
>> > wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> A "Dummies" book would probably be enough to justify Scheme. Ironic  
>> perhaps?
>>
>>
>> That's essentially what The Little Schemer is, except without the
>> insulting title.
>>
>>
>> Than how about "Practical Scheme" or "Real World Scheme"?
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