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Scheme illustrated

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I went to college with the student who drew all these illustrations. The white boards in the computer science department were always covered with her awesome artwork. Since she graduated, the boards are much more boring.

She also was the creative mind behind our year-long animation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCHivuaQhQY

Awesome. These drawings helped me during 61a!

Lucky you!

Thanks for this! I'm teaching Scheme to middle schoolers at the moment, and I make use of lots of visuals. I'm looking forward to trying out some of the ideas and drawings in this report.

I have a dream where you can code Lisp via diagrams, this is a nice aproximation of it.

Anybody ever tought of that? First you draw diagrams of Lisp metaphors with Lisp, then you can code Lisp by creating diagrams and evaluating them. Thanks to the almighty powers of Lisp you could then draw or code meta-diagrams to guide diagram modelling. The biggest challenge, imhhho, is getting the Lisp diagram representation right to make it sound.

I was thinking in joining a Lisp open-source project to get up with Lisp application coding pratices, any suggestion?

Which Lisp are we talking about here? There is the Lisp that some programmers use to make ends meet and solve real world problems, then there is the mythical, perfect, Lisp that's much opined about by the Lisp fans in the non-coding prose-sphere.

If this tool is meant for real, actual Lisp programmers, I think you should pause for a minute and survey the community. This might not be what they want after all.

But if this is a thing for Lisp fans, well, those guys will take anything.

I would never have the ambition of creating a tool for Lisp programmers, they say communication with target users is a key thing for success. I still want to solve real world problems and I coul use a lisp <i> programmer </> or two.

Something like subtext?:

http://subtextual.org/

Really nice, I love how I stumbled in the spreadsheet case study, that's one of my use cases! Thank you so much for the link.

Man, I would take almost any page of this as a poster for my room.

The drawings are almost too cute. More concepts should be explained in this manner!

Oh what disgusting gradients. In every single illustration.

Okay, not every illustration. But the color choice is a bit distracting. I'd settle for a well-written explanation of a technical concept over a cartoon most days.

You already have that option. There are a ton of Scheme/Lisp books that are filled with well-written explanations of technical concepts.

This book isn't for you, go away.

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