Awesome Scheme

A curated list of really awesome Scheme materials, tools and resources.

Contents

• Frameworks
• Resources
• Languages

Languages

A list of Languages implemented in Scheme.

• Pie - Pie is a little language with dependent types that accompanies The Little Typer.

Frameworks

A list of Frameworks for Scheme.

• Artanis - GNU Artanis aims to be a web application framework for Scheme.

Resources

A list of resources, books and references about Scheme.

Books

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 2ed - A prime example of a masterpiece. A great intro to Computer science and a really good practice for learning Scheme. Highly recommended.

• An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation - Learn and use Scheme. Great Resource.
• The Scheme Programming Language 4ed - Prime reference book.
• Teach Yourself Scheme - Nice Scheme tutorial.

Videos

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Twenty video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman are a complete presentation of the course of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Must see.

Websites

• Schemers - The improper list of Scheme resources. A prime reference site.
• Community Scheme Wiki - Wiki page for Scheme.
• SRFI - Scheme requests for implementation.
• The Adventures of a Pythonista in Schemeland - Tutorial for Scheme targeted for Python Developers.
• r5rs - The official Scheme language definition and reference.
• Scheme Repl - Online Scheme REPL.
• Reddit handle - Reddit page on Scheme.

Implementations

• Racket Lang - The most confortable enviroment to start working with Scheme. It offers great documentation and an awesome IDE. Highly Recommended.
• Chez Scheme - The world's fastest and most reliable implementation of Scheme, originally developed by Kent Dybvig, bought and open-sourced by Cisco. It has built Racket's compiler+JIT & GC too, by project Racket-on-Chez.
• Chicken Scheme - Portable Scheme Compiler that works well. Has nice documentation and active support.
• Gambit Scheme - Another complete, portable, efficient and reliable implementation.
• Schibi Scheme - Minimal Scheme Implementation for use as an Extension Language.
• Guile Scheme - Gnus Scheme Implementation and Programming environment.
• Kawa Scheme - Runs on the JVM. Part of the Kawa language Framework.

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