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New attempt at a Scheme library erkin (03 Feb 2020 22:22 UTC)
Re: New attempt at a Scheme library Amirouche Boubekki (04 Feb 2020 08:01 UTC)
Scheme bibliography / Readscheme updates Lassi Kortela (04 Feb 2020 11:17 UTC)
Re: Scheme bibliography / Readscheme updates Amirouche Boubekki (06 Feb 2020 08:56 UTC)
Re: Scheme bibliography / Readscheme updates Lassi Kortela (07 Feb 2020 15:37 UTC)
Re: Scheme bibliography / Readscheme updates Arthur A. Gleckler (06 Feb 2020 16:10 UTC)
Re: New attempt at a Scheme library Lassi Kortela (04 Feb 2020 11:12 UTC)
Re: New attempt at a Scheme library erkin (04 Feb 2020 16:40 UTC)

Re: New attempt at a Scheme library erkin 04 Feb 2020 16:40 UTC


On February 4, 2020 2:12:02 PM GMT+03:00, Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote:
>Hello erkin, welcome! Great to have new people.
>
>Very nice collection and well organized :) This is the best summary of
>Scheme books I've seen.

Thank you. :-)

>IMHO it would be great to have a page of Scheme books that are
>accessible to working programmers. "Readscheme", the comprehensive
>bibliography of academic papers & books, is awesome but can be a bit
>intimidating to the casual explorer.

What prompted me to make this page is that newbies keep asking for resources and get pointed to an archived webpage where books (in English, French and German) are mixed with academic papers, not to mention half the links are dead. It simply doesn't serve the public image of Scheme well.

>I sent you an invitation to the <https://github.com/schemedoc> GitHub
>group. Feel free to commit or make new repos if you have some ideas.
>Things are not very well organized there yet.

Thanks! I accepted the invite. I hope to help initiate some documentation projects to make Scheme more accessible to newbies.

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