To the lisp / scheme curious:
I'd suggest installing Racket, opening DrRacket and going through this tutorial: http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/
You'll be coding fun things in mere minutes... even with no lisp or even *any* programming experience!
Writing a web application is only a few lines away: http://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/index.html
Try it! I promise you'll have fun!
@cwebber Do you know Pollen (http://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/)? It's made by the guy that wrote https://practicaltypography.com/ (and, of course, that book is written in Pollen).
@estebanm Oh I heard about this but couldn't remember what its name was... thanks!
@cwebber I haven't actually used Pollen, but the book Practical Typography I can recommend, it's great if you're into that sort of thing.
@cwebber REPLs that can spit pictures are sooooooo cool!
@federicomena @cwebber Ok (circle 10) is pretty neat.
@alienghic @federicomena Keep going! It gets even neater :D
picture combinators!
@cwebber (((((((((())))))))))
@AmarOk that's da good stuff
@cwebber I’m so curious about this.
@cwebber Compiling now. I'm curious!
@cwebber sexp-syntax without paredit is hell.
@webshinra DrRacket does some of the nicer emacs parenthesis management things, and even provides a lot of the navigation / structure editing keybindings that paredit does. I was surprised how nice it felt.
@cwebber That's good to know, thank you.
Even if I would not recommand it for a «serious use» (learing a editor per language is a conceptual error IMAO) I'll have no hesitation proposing it for pedagogic use :)
@cwebber @federicomena It falls short of the mark. The new hype is fantasy consoles: https://tic.computer/
@cwebber Also, I've had great success using Bootstrap (bootstrapworld.org) in my classes. You only need to know about 7th grade (American educational system a.k.a basic algebra) math in order to go through the tutorials. Great place to start with Lispy languages.
One fun thing about that first tutorial is that it's very accessible to non compsci/math people... because instead of building strings or "objects" or doing math, you're building pictures, live! And DrRacket makes it very easy to get going!