[racket] Suggested material for learning Racket and PL topics?

2013-08-28 Thread Nick Shelley
I'm interested in learning more about Racket, macros, programming languages, and anything else that will make me a better programmer. The problem is, there is so much material out there that I'd appreciate help in prioritizing what to do first. As a background, I understand that using Racket is on

Re: [racket] Suggested material for learning Racket and PL topics?

2013-08-28 Thread Grant Rettke
LAMBDA: The Ultimate Imperative LAMBDA: The Ultimate GOTO Automata via Macros http://www.readscheme.org/ On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Nick Shelley wrote: > I'm interested in learning more about Racket, macros, programming languages, > and anything else that will make me a better programmer

Re: [racket] Suggested material for learning Racket and PL topics?

2013-08-29 Thread Greg Hendershott
I have a few suggestions, that go beyond books: 1. After a certain point I found it helpful to read a lot of other people's real-world Racket code. This helped me learn about various idioms, tactics, and styles. Some I've adopted, some not, but either way good to know about. The source for Racket

Re: [racket] Suggested material for learning Racket and PL topics?

2013-08-29 Thread Asumu Takikawa
On 2013-08-29 14:08:30 -0400, Greg Hendershott wrote: > 3. There are a few blogs that cover Racket and are active recently. I > think all of them are rolled up under the Planet Scheme feed and web > site: Also, blog posts about Racket tend to get tweeted/re-tweeted by the Racket twitter account:

Re: [racket] Suggested material for learning Racket and PL topics?

2013-09-03 Thread Nick Shelley
Thanks for the suggestions. I will add those to my list. Would it make sense to add any of these responses to the Learn page of the Racket web site? On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Asumu Takikawa wrote: > On 2013-08-29 14:08:30 -0400, Greg Hendershott wrote: > > 3. There are a few blogs that