[plt-scheme] Danny's tutorial

From: Jens Axel Søgaard (jensaxel at soegaard.net)
Date: Tue Apr 18 17:59:58 EDT 2006

Nicholas Chubrich wrote:
> For whatever reason the Scheme Cookbook seems to encourage short snippets.  
> What I had in mind was something akin to Wikipedia.  The raw material
> might start out fragmentary, but the eventual goal would be to weave it
> together into a coherent, more-or-less ordered tutorial.  I don't see why
> that couldn't be "bashed" into the existing Scheme wiki, but I do think
> the format would have to be a little different from the existing Scheme
> cookbook.

Time is scarce and volunteers are few.[*] Therefore it makes sense to 
start in the small. Simply write the first few chapters and get some 
feedback. It makes sense to use the time to write, rather than use it on 
setting up infrastructure, which may or may not be used.

[*] Count the contributors here:
     <http://schemecookbook.org/Cookbook/WebStatistics>

-- 
Jens Axel Søgaard




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