[plt-scheme] online version of _The Little Schemer_?

Actually, I had a profound experience first reading "The Little
Lisper" (the original title), with no computer, let alone a Lisp or
Scheme system, handy.  It helped me understand recursion for the first
time, and I went on to use my new enlightenment to write in DCL (the
rather nasty command shell for VAX/VMS) a little self-modifying
end-user menu script which I and my various employers used for years
afterwards.  You might try just you, the book, and your mind.  Maybe
in lotus position with some green tea ;-)

(Not to imply that I could ever get into a lotus position, but I do
like green tea.)

On Dec 3, 2007 5:25 PM, Benjamin L. Russell <dekudekuplex at yahoo.com> wrote:
> FWIW, the reasons that I want an on-line version of
> _The Little Schemer_ are the following:
>
> 1) I already have an offline book version, and hence
> have already paid the "license" fee.
>
> 2) I live in Tokyo, where there are very few
> bookstores  or libraries that carry English-language
> books, and hence cannot easily browse sections of the
> book unless I have it with me.
>
> 3) My apartment is very small and currently has no
> available table space, so I cannot do the examples
> easily at home.
>
> 4) I currently work as a translator at a patent
> office, and usually study by using spare moments at
> work when I have just finished work assignments.
> Opening a book at work (as opposed to just a window on
> my computer desktop) would alert my peers that I have
> finished an assignment, causing them almost
> immediately to assign me the next assignment (and
> thereby preventing me from reading the book).
>
> 5) I graduated with a computer science degree, and
> wish to deepen my knowledge of the subject.  In
> particular, Scheme programming is fun, and I wish to
> learn more about the art of such topics as tail
> recursion, self-reference, closures, continuations,
> etc.
>
> Benjamin L. Russell
>
>
> --- Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It must be that Friedman guy who's greedy...
> >
> > Or it could be the publisher, I suppose. But we all
> > know that they
> > have only the best interests of the world, their
> > readers, and
> > scholarly work as a whole at heart.
> >
> > Todd
> >
> > On Dec 3, 2007 10:55 AM, Matthias Felleisen
> > <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Dec 2, 2007, at 10:56 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > None of those are on-line.  Matthias doesn't
> > believe in books being
> > > > available on-line. (-:
> > >
> > > As the presence of "how to design programs" at
> > htdp.org shows.
> > > FYI, I negotiated that contract and I insisted on
> > making it
> > > free. -- Matthias
> > >
> > >
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