Scheme tutorials and links

• Scheme tutorials and references
• Links and Scheme propaganda

Scheme tutorials and reference

These are local copies of things that I've found on the web.

• Paul Wilson's draft An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation (The original is here.)

  This is a fairly extensive reference and tutorial for Scheme. There are a lot of things I like about it, but it is a bit long, and some sections are not filled it. One thing that I don't like about it is that in the beginning, it translates C/C++ statements and expressions into Scheme. I think this is a mistake because this approach does not carry over into Scheme procedures of even simple to moderate complexity. You need to give up thinking procedurally and think functionally instead.

• Dorai Sitaram's Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days (The original is here.)

  This is a nicely done presentation of Scheme that is a pretty good cross between a formal presentation and a tutorial presentation of the language. My only complaint is that it quickly introduces "advanced" features of the language pretty early (such as dotted pairs and mutators), whereas I'd rather focus on the main features that you need to know to start writing programs quickly (and in a functional programming sort of way!)

• A. Aaby's Scheme tutorial (The original is here.)

  A concise tutorial which has a somewhat formal presentation.

• John David Stone's Workshop on Scheme, June 10-16, 1996 at Grinnell College (The original is here and can also be found on the Internet Scheme repository.)

  Has several sets of exercises with solutions.

• Ken Dickey's The Scheme Programming Language

• Ken Dickey's Scheme Quick Reference

• Joseph Lavinus' and James Arthur's Introductory Scheme (postscript)

Links and Scheme propaganda

• The MIT Scheme home page
• Schemers.org
• The Internet Scheme Repository