I've been reading The Scheme Programming Language, Fourth Edition by
R. Kent Dybvig, and I've been really impressed. Programming books
usually take it very slow and try to be amusing. Dybvig's book is
concise. It teaches you Scheme by giving you examples and explaining
what it is you're doing. There's no dumbing down, and this has two
side-effects: Sometimes you have to read a sentence twice to really
get it, and in general (in my experience so far) you learn faster. I
hope I've just been reading the wrong books, and that this is how most
of them are written, but if that's not the case I hope this is a trend
and not an outlier.
R. Kent Dybvig, and I've been really impressed. Programming books
usually take it very slow and try to be amusing. Dybvig's book is
concise. It teaches you Scheme by giving you examples and explaining
what it is you're doing. There's no dumbing down, and this has two
side-effects: Sometimes you have to read a sentence twice to really
get it, and in general (in my experience so far) you learn faster. I
hope I've just been reading the wrong books, and that this is how most
of them are written, but if that's not the case I hope this is a trend
and not an outlier.
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