Comment by dark-star
3 years ago
Wow, I would really like to get this book to complete my set of the Little Schemer, the Seasoned Schemer and the Reasoned Schemer. But 55$ is almost twice as expensive as the other books. Yes, it is bigger than those but still...
Have to think about this for a while :)
Rated on dollars per hour of brain upgrades, thinking and enjoyment, it doesn’t get better than a good book.
The little schemer is $40 now, reasoned schemer is $30, and the little typer is $38 (about twice as thick as the other two).
I had to think on the little schemer, but grabbed it because my ten year old said that the little typer was "interesting", and I thought he might learn something from it.
Probably should finish working through what I have before getting another, though.
Your ten-year-old was interested in dependent types? You can turn to the back of the book and show him that truths begin with 𝚪 ⊢
There's also "The Little Typer" and "The Little Prover."
In the same series, there's also "A Little Java" by Matthias Felleisen, one of the creators of Racket (a popular Lisp).
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262561150/a-little-java-a-few-p...
Is it still good? I see it was published in 1997.
I like the style of these books, and might read this one - I'm just worried that Java has changed quite a bit since then. Is it still, say, 90% OK?
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And The Little MLer.
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You aren't helping him. :)
yeah, I just realized that too. screw it, I'll just grab all of them ;-)