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Cookbook BrainStorm

What should a cookbook contain? Add your ideas the list below.

1. Intro to (PLT) Scheme
   • Link to Sitaram's FixnumDays
   • Philosophy of the cookbook (i.e. mostly PLT, but with an eye on RnRS)
   • How to use the HelpDesk
2. Scheme Programming Style
   • Common Idioms
   • Proper Tail Recursion?
   • Modules
   • Pattern Matching
   • GettingStartedMacros
   • GettingStartedExceptions
   • Monadic Programming
   • Units?
   • Object Oriented Programming
   • GettingStartedContracts
3. Cookbook Recipes for solving common tasks.
   • Lists
   • Strings
   • Vectors
   • Numbers
   • Structures
   • Hash tables
   • Non builtin data structures?
   • Regular Expressions: regexps and pregexps?
   • advanced file munging: lexing and parsing
   • SRFIs
   • Time and dates
   • Files and directories?
   • Collections?
     • Net Collection? tcp/ip, http
     • XML Collection?
   • Web Programming: SSAX, WebIt!, SXPath, Servlets?, CGI
   • Databases
   • Thread Recipes
   • GUI Programming

-- JensAxelSoegaard - 29 Mar 2004

Other places to look for inspiration include:

• http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/ CommonLispCookbook
• http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python PythonCookbook?
• http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cookbook/toc.html PerlCookbook? table of contents

-- GordonWeakliem - 30 Mar 2004 I'm very much in favor of emulating the Python and Perl cookbooks The PythonCookbook? also has a TOC at TOC One thing the cookbooks do is show more than one way, discussing tradeoffs. Even for recipies like Getting A Value From A Dictionary that are straightforward, it's useful to have an example. It's nice to be able to index by concept instead of keyword when you don't know the language well.