Scheme 1: Feel the cool video

May 22, 2012 [Lisp, Metaprogramming, Programming Languages, Scheme, Tech, Videos]

Series: Feel the cool, Basics, Closures, Recursion, Quotation, Lambda, Macros.

Here's me trying to persuade you to be interested in a 40-year-old programming language, called Scheme, which is a type of Lisp:

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Comments

Johnny 2023-02-27

Hello Andy,
What implementation of Scheme are you using in this fantastic video, is it the one you typically use? I would like to begin learning this implementation. Thank you so much for your time.

Andy Balaam 2023-02-27

Hi Johnny, I’m using mzscheme: https://github.com/racket/mzscheme . Enjoy!

Pete Barber 2012-06-12

Cool:–) just watched part 1. Enjoyable intro. Look fwd to watching the next couple. Other than fun & cool what was your motivation for learning scheme (writing emacs macros?)

Andy Balaam 2012-06-13

Hi Pete, thanks! A friend recommended Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and after a couple of pages I was hooked. Also I am interested, one day, in writing my own language, so learning Lisp was a necessary prerequisite…