I don't understand how anyone can recommend book like "The Little Schemer". I've got 3 books in the series without looking inside and they were worse programming books I've ever seen.
I can only see benefit if someone is learning scheme elsewhere and this is just exercises book. Since the structure of that book doesn't make any sense to me if you want to learn on your own. For me the those books were useless.
Well, conversely, I don't understand how anyone can not get a lot out of this series, I devoured every entry as a self-learner. No, they were not the only material I used to learn Scheme and recursion, but but I've never learned any concept from just one resource. It's an unorthodox format, I agree. But everyone has a different learning style. I'm sorry to hear it didn't work for you, but clearly it's worked for a lot of other people. i'm glad there's a massive range of learning materials for self-learners, so if one recommendation doesn't sit well, there's always more to try.
I would love to see experience from someone that has 0 knowledge and start with this book. And this is what people recommend as first book. I can understand if someone want to use this book when she already know Scheme. But the target for this book are complete newbies, which for them I would never recommend it.
For me personally best book about Scheme is Sketchy Scheme by Nils M Holm.
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I don't understand how anyone can recommend book like "The Little Schemer". I've got 3 books in the series without looking inside and they were worse programming books I've ever seen.
I can only see benefit if someone is learning scheme elsewhere and this is just exercises book. Since the structure of that book doesn't make any sense to me if you want to learn on your own. For me the those books were useless.
Well, conversely, I don't understand how anyone can not get a lot out of this series, I devoured every entry as a self-learner. No, they were not the only material I used to learn Scheme and recursion, but but I've never learned any concept from just one resource. It's an unorthodox format, I agree. But everyone has a different learning style. I'm sorry to hear it didn't work for you, but clearly it's worked for a lot of other people. i'm glad there's a massive range of learning materials for self-learners, so if one recommendation doesn't sit well, there's always more to try.
I would love to see experience from someone that has 0 knowledge and start with this book. And this is what people recommend as first book. I can understand if someone want to use this book when she already know Scheme. But the target for this book are complete newbies, which for them I would never recommend it.
For me personally best book about Scheme is Sketchy Scheme by Nils M Holm.