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On the subject of education, pg links to a great story on Scheme (a Lisp 1) in education [1] from his essay "Beating the Averages" [2]. The story references a book, "A Schemer's Guide" that is a good Scheme/Lisp or programming learning reference [3].

If you know folks learning programming for the first time and maybe struggling with Java or whatever they're using, these references may help. Sometimes you just need to see things like recursion or currying in a different way for it to click.

[1]:http://www.trollope.org/scheme.html

[2]:http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

[3]:https://www.worldcat.org/title/schemers-guide/oclc/24430531

[4]:https://schemers.org/Documents/ (more Scheme resources)

[5]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp-1




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