[plt-dev] number of HtDP graduates

The 'Continue' tutorial is a great introduction to web programming,
and there is the cookbook for some 'practical' stuff.  I seem to
remember the licence on the cookbook wiki left the option for the
content being used to produce a book.

Stephen

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Kevin A. Smith
<kevin at hypotheticalabs.com> wrote:
> 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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