[plt-scheme] Re: Can I read HTDP offline?

From: Shriram Krishnamurthi (sk at cs.brown.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 20 14:15:49 EST 2009

How about this one:

http://www.plai.org/

It does everything you want except be a thriving business (as
witnessed by the fact that I'm still here <-;).

Shriram

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Richard Cleis <rcleis at mac.com> wrote:
> I was hoping to finally learn a business model that merges the Internet with
> the intellectual property of professorship.  Perhaps someone can suggest a
> text to, uh, download.
>
> RAC
>
> On Dec 20, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>
>> This book is utterly orthogonal to the goals of HtDP in both important
>> dimensions: HtDP does not teach a language, and it does teach a design
>> methodology.  I have no idea what its connection might be to this
>> thread.
>>
>> Next up in this thread: Project Gutenberg link for the Scarlet Pimpernel.
>>
>> (Yeah, here: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/60)
>>
>> Shriram
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Karl Winterling <kwinterling at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> You may also like ``Learn You a Haskell for Great Good,'' though it
>>> has no cartoon foxes, I'm afraid.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Ricardo
>>> <ricardo.soaresdelima at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Karl! I'll check your suggestions.
>>>>
>>>> On 19 dez, 15:57, Karl Winterling <kwinterl... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Karl Winterling
>>>>> <kwinterl... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can get a PDF versions of _Concrete Abstractions: Exploring
>>>>>> Computer Science Using Scheme_ at
>>>>>> http://gustavus.edu/+max/concrete-abstractions.htmland _Simply
>>>>>> Scheme_ athttp://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html
>>>>>
>>>>>> Both of these textbooks are good introductions to functional
>>>>>> programming and don't assume you're a total math geek (HTDP is good
>>>>>> also). For _Concrete Abstractions_, choose the ``Pretty Big'' language
>>>>>> level and everything should work except for graphics. For _Simply
>>>>>> Scheme_ (full disclosure: I know Brian Harvey personally and I learned
>>>>>> to program with this book), Danny Yoo wrote a DrScheme language level
>>>>>> with correct primitives that's in the planet repository.
>>>>>
>>>>>> If, on the other hand, you are a math geek (or you enjoy pain, or
>>>>>> whatever) get Neil Van Dyke's texinfo version of SICP and use sicp.plt
>>>>>
>>>>>> ---Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Ricardo
>>>>>> <ricardo.soaresdel... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi there! I'm going to stay offline this end of year and I want to
>>>>>>> look into functional programming. I've got the DrScheme Installed and
>>>>>>> I want to read the htdp book. Can I read this book on my laptop? It
>>>>>>> this is possible, how can I do that?
>>>>>>> Thanks and happy end of year to you!
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