SICP Study Group, July 12, 2014

A couple of us met today to check in about progress on the SICP book. Here are links to some of the topics discussed:

Emacs has a Prelude version for new users, which looks interesting:

• http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Prelude
• https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

Write iOS apps in Scheme by compiling to C first:

http://jlongster.com/s/jlongster-old/pages/blog/write-apps-iphone-scheme.html

The “Janki method” is worth checking out — I started with Scheme by going through Anki flashcards:

http://www.oxbridgenotes.co.uk/articles/jankimethodrefined

GIMP’s main scripting language is Scheme:

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Scheme/

Here is another book on Scheme called Simply Scheme:

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html

I also found this page useful:

http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-scheme-user/GNU-Emacs-Interface.html