Scheme book
Aaron Maxwell
I just finished a nice book on scheme, called The Little Schemer:
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0262560992
It is ten chapters, and most of the book reads pretty fast. I got through the
end of chapter 7 in a few hours of reading over several days. It helped me
get a much deeper understanding of scheme and lisp-like languages very fast.
If you'd like to be more easily adept at working with the math notation in
SICM, you may benefit from reading it too: the ratio of benefit to time
investment is very high.
It took me another month to read and understand the last three chapters. (Not
continuous reading, of course - I read two other, unrelated books
concurrently in the same interval.) In particular, the last chapter, which I
had to read once in bafflement, let it sit for two weeks, then read again to
really get it. These last three chapters are harder, and perhaps not so
important from the standpoint of understanding physics. I personally still
found them very rewarding and worth the effort.
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Aaron Maxwell
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