Overall it has been a pleasant experience working with Google Groups. Rather than set up a server, install the wiki, file share, and listserve myself, and host it on the Internet; I can set up a group there instead. It is pretty convenient. Additionally, their interface is pleasant and search works pretty well (no surprises [...]
Per Matthias, the best place to start HTDP is by quickly going through the prolog to the 2nd edition and then diving into the book. I posted on this here.
Q. Are we doing this to learn Scheme? A. No. As a result of working through the book, we will learn Scheme, but the goal is to learn how write programs, not learn Scheme the programming language. For that you should read http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/.
HTDP is FREE. Basically the only thing you need to take advantage of it is a computer, interest, and discipline. That is awesome!
While studying HTDP, there are a few opportunities that occur during the process: Practice Blogging: I am assuming two things: 1. We are all going to learn things. 2. It is going to be fun. That alone is worth blogging about. If you haven’t got a blog, this is an excuse to start one. The [...]
Originally posted here: What we will do is to read and complete the problems in HTDP. When we’ve got questions (or thoughts or ideas) about the content (any content, not necessarily limited to HTDP, anything CS/HTDP related is fair game), we should send them to the mailing list. I will respond to, and post, questions [...]
Originally posted here: Initially, the folks participating are primarily either co-workers or non-co-worker friends who have wide range of experience and interests. From my perspective, everyone is welcome. The more interested, motivated participants the better! I’ve been delighted by the number of folks that have showed up on the Internet either to participate or help. [...]
About three weeks ago I “made it official” and announced the Study-HTDP for any folks who may be interested. I figured that I would post both to the group itself, and mirror the interesting things here. It didn’t really work out that way. Focusing on the work and not much else, I’ve posted exclusively to [...]
Originally I figured that a lot of my thoughts would show up here, but they haven’t. Instead they get posted directly to the group. That said, here are some thoughts from the week: The beginning student language is interesting: no variable binding and function definitions are only one expression long It is great to be [...]
Study-HTDP is a study group for folks who want to read through HTDP. My rationale is explained here. I suspect that many blog posts in the following months will be tagged with ‘Study-HTDP’. I’m pretty excited to see how this turns out. I hope not only to learn a lot about programming, but also about [...]