On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote:
> "Hugo Arts" <hugo.yo...@gmail.com> wrote > > > [1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ >> [2] >> http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ >> >> > And I'd add the superb How to Design Programs: > > http://www.htdp.org/ > > It teaches Scheme programming using a recipe approach > that creates a standard stricture for a function. It then extends > that structure as the examples build in complexity but always > keeping the basic theme. > > This book and SICP are two of the best for making you rethink all > you thought you knew about program structure and design! > How about the ANSI Lisp by Paul Graham. Any options negative or positive? > > If you really want to bend your brain in Lisp (Scheme) try > The Little Schemer and its follow up the Seasoned Schemer > It took me 3 attempts to really get to grips with the first and > I'm on my second attempt at the second! > Is that linked to the Little Lisper somehow? > > What all these books will do is give you a rational approach > to problem solving for programming that will often work when > more 'conventional' approaches don't. The performance of the > resulting code may not be optimal but it will often give you > the key breakthrough that you can then rewrite more > conventionally into good and fast code. It also often leads to > much more elegant solutions. Good for when you have > something that works but looks a mess... rethink it for > Lisp and see what's different. > > > -- > Alan Gauld > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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