[plt-scheme] Re: HTDP - evidently not for everyone.

On 2/19/10 10:50 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
>> In that case, it seems that a different question is in order:  Is there an
>> "online TLS for desk-space-challenged readers?"
>
> TLS is smaller than my laptop, and my laptop is invariably much
> smaller than that of everyone else I work with.  Since you are
> desk-space-challenged, I suggest you get rid of your laptop and get a
> copy of TLS instead.  You will learn more from TLS than from your
> laptop.  Unfortunately getting rid of the laptop might curtail access
> to email, but that can only help learning even more.

That would be the case if programming were a spectator sport; 
unfortunately, as has already been mentioned in this thread, programming 
is more like swimming than like watching someone swim.  I cannot learn 
programming just by reading TLS, no more than by reading any other 
programming book; I need to practice.

Guess where I practice?

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