[plt-scheme] Danny's tutorial

From: mvanier (mvanier at cs.caltech.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 18 19:10:30 EDT 2006

If Wikipedia is the standard, why not write a WikiBook on Wikipedia?

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Mike


Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:
> 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>
> 


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