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Pro Aids in teaching programming logic as well as Scheme
"The Little Schemer" teaches Scheme while also challenging the readers thought process in order to improve overall programming abilities.
Pro Creative and humorous teaching style
The authors write in a humorous and witty style that keeps the readers attention throughout the book.
Con Lack of detail for more difficult concepts
"The Little Schemer" does touch on more advanced Scheme concepts, however includes only a weak explanation of them. For more advanced topics, the sequel "The Seasoned Schemer", is required.
Pro Knowledge can be applied to any language
This isn't a book you'll glean direct practical tidbits out of, an introduction to not only functional programming but how to think in a paradigm outside the usual way C*/Python/Ruby/Java/etc... are coded. Even if you wind up never working in Scheme or any other primarily functional langua...
Pro Teaches very important programming concepts
Like closures and encapsulation without language support of objects.
Pro Very good for absolute beginners
This book gives a great insight about immutable and mutable state (with pros and cons), typisation, FP, OOP, and many other things in a very beginner-friendly manner
Pro Free
It's available free on Github.
Pro Can submit pull requests to suggest improvements
You can submit issues to suggest improvements, or submit pull requests. Thanks to it being open source, it's constantly being improved and updated.
Con Shortage of real world examples
There are very few non-trivial examples given in the book.
Pro Free
Available online for free.
Con Poorly organized and hard to follow
The book jumps around, includes confusing function names and many of the code examples don't compile.
Con Not really "real world"
The book doesn't feel very "pragmatic". The title implies a practical approach to Haskell, but it takes way too long to be able to actually create something using this book as lot of time is spent on theory.
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