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Re:Ask HN: Programming books to read while on vacation? by colbyolson on Sunday August 16, 2009 @07:11PM (#766937)
Forgive me for asking, but how could that book help me down the road? Scheme seems so obscure to me. I was at the bookstore and checked it out, and was mildly intimidated by it, although the illustrations were cute.

I ended up purchasing Practical Programming. Thank you all for your recommendations, some I have saved into my reading list.

PDF Sample: http://media.pragprog.com/titles/gwpy/toc.pdf

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Programming-Introduction-Pra...

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Re:Ask HN: Programming books to read while on vacation? by Scriptor on Sunday August 16, 2009 @08:12PM (#767034)
It's not really meant to just teach you scheme. Scheme by itself is incredibly minimalist and simple. The exercises are more logic/math-based puzzles. Here's a list of the exercises themselves:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/exercises.ps

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Re:Ask HN: Programming books to read while on vacation? by herdrick on Sunday August 16, 2009 @08:51PM (#767092)
TLS will break your mind in the most delicious way. I can't recommend it enough. As for practicality, I think that the world is trending in directions that make becoming comfortable with recursion more important.
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Re:Ask HN: Programming books to read while on vacation? by skwaddar on Monday August 17, 2009 @04:04AM (#767592)
You made the wrong choice, TLS would have changed your world. Now you're slumming it.
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