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As someone who hasn't been able to get enough motivation to read past the first few pages of SICP, I _really_ wish someone made a TryRuby.org like thing using SICP.

Please!

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You mean to give you a scheme REPL?

Because I'm skeptical of the use of transforming SICP into a "tutorial" style. It's the kind of book that you need to read and think about.

Having said that, finding a REPL that's compatible with it can take a little bit of time. Personally I quite like GambitC which I seem to recall is fairly compatible.

I've found using SICP in TexInfo format over at http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/ to be quite useful when you throw it into Emacs with a Racket acting as a REPL and a scratch buffer, like so: http://i.imgur.com/J3lI1.png

Have you tried Racket? http://racket-lang.org/

& check instructions here: http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/

you could try Guile (GNU's scheme) from command line. http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/

Might be doable with Chicken Scheme's sandbox egg?

I'm hardly the person to write lessons for it; but there are pure-JS impls of Scheme[0] that would be handy in building such a thing.

[0] http://www.biwascheme.org/ among many others

I always found the book too dry. Then I discovered the video lectures and they blew my mind. I suggest you give them a try.

Try _The Little Schemer_. It is the classic interactive textbook.

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