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When looking for open source functional math approaches I came across the scheme implementation which was (is?) used in lectures at MIT.

There are two rather famous educational books



which both are available in html online versions sicp-online sicm-online

Both of them are covered in extensive university courses, so its not a casual read. But contents and and style seem highest quality stuff.

The books use the scheme implementation from one of the authors (Sussman) and a special package (smutils) written to do the physics for the 2nd book. The package contains edwin, an emacs like editor and IDE. Originally the software is distributed as a tarball, I put it into a pet, together with icon and a menu entry (in Development section). Else you can also start with "mechanics&" from terminal.

Download MIT_scmutils32.pet (23.6 MB)

it was build in puppy 431, but it should work on all 32 bit puppies.

further links:
To get startet: beginner.txt
MIT-scheme user manual
sicp Wiki (with exercise solutions)
Eli Bendersky's sicp review and exercise solutions
Reviews of sicp and sicm on Amazon

It would be interesting to write a wrapper for the sage notebook for this package. However in the meantime this is an excellent possibility to learn some functional programming .

emil wrote:When looking for open source functional math approaches I came across the scheme implementation which was (is?) used in lectures at MIT.

There are two rather famous educational books
...
which both are available in html online versions sicp-online sicm-online

The books use the scheme implementation from one of the authors (Sussman) and a special package (smutils) written to do the physics for the 2nd book. The package contains edwin, an emacs like editor and IDE. Originally the software is distributed as a tarball, I put it into a pet, together with icon and a menu entry (in Development section). Else you can also start with "mechanics&" from terminal.

it was build in puppy 431, but it should work on all 32 bit puppies.


It would be interesting to write a wrapper for the sage notebook for this package. However in the meantime this is an excellent possibility to learn some functional programming .

I am learning scheme using a programming development called DrRacket...is it possible to make an sfs package ? I am using Lighthouse Puppy 5.03 Mariner.
Please let me know what i need to do. Thanks
Michel

I looked at the DRacket homepage, there are some prebuild debian/Ubuntu packages which you could try.

There is also the linux source code - how about trying to compile it on your favorite puppy? Usually it is just something like ./configure ; make; new2dir make install.

this will create a new directory which contains all program files, to create an sfs you can then use the command "dir2sfs".

regards
emil

emil wrote:I looked at the DRacket homepage, there are some prebuild debian/Ubuntu packages which you could try.

There is also the linux source code - how about trying to compile it on your favorite puppy? Usually it is just something like ./configure ; make; new2dir make install.

this will create a new directory which contains all program files, to create an sfs you can then use the command "dir2sfs".

regards
emil

Hi emil, I was able to compile the source code successfully ! I am testing the result, so far so good...it was a good learning experience...I can now focus on learning more Scheme !!

By the way, I have the book. I am planning to read it this spring since i am not taking any class
Michel

This is excellent news! Have fun and maybe share your package...
emil