The 'Continue' tutorial is a great introduction to web programming, and there is the cookbook for some 'practical' stuff. I seem to remember the licence on the cookbook wiki left the option for the content being used to produce a book.
Stephen On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Kevin A. Smith <ke...@hypotheticalabs.com> wrote: > As a foundation, sure but the book would also need to include some more > real-world topics like web programming. I'm thinking of something like > "Practical PLT Scheme" patterned after Mr. Seibel's excellent tome on CL. > > --Kevin > On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:53 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > >> Does "Teach yourself scheme in fixnum days" fit the bill? >> >> ?is it available on print on demand? >> >> S. >> >> On Wednesday, October 14, 2009, Kevin A. Smith >> <ke...@hypotheticalabs.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'd love to see an practical Scheme book make it to the bookshelves if >>> for no other reason than to be able to point my friends and co-workers at >>> it. >>> >>> The Pragmatic Programmers recently published a book on Clojure and >>> O'Reilly has a CL book on the way. It seems to me there'd be interest in PLT >>> Scheme, too, since mainstream programming culture is (very) slowly waking >>> from their Java-Java-Java-Java coma. >>> >>> --Kevin >>> On Oct 13, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Grant Rettke wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:01 AM, David Storrs <david.sto...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Grant Rettke <gret...@acm.org> wrote: >>> >>> A "Dummies" book would probably be enough to justify Scheme. Ironic >>> perhaps? >>> >>> >>> That's essentially what The Little Schemer is, except without the >>> insulting title. >>> >>> >>> Than how about "Practical Scheme" or "Real World Scheme"? >>> _________________________________________________ >>> For list-related administrative tasks: >>> http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev >>> >>> >>> _________________________________________________ >>> For list-related administrative tasks: >>> http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev >>> >> _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
