The Schemer's guideFerguson, Iain.
The Schemer's guide
by Ferguson, Iain. · first published 1990
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…education via letters, remember math can be learned with just pen and paper and not the kind of shit we learn in highschool but the Terrence Tao Analysis from scratch kind. There's an old book called the Schemer's Guide by Iain Ferguson (spelling?) which is programming with pen and paper. Many opportunities here besides just communications, just an idea, I have no clue how it would work in practice. Another idea is…
on “Show HN: Ameelio.org – Free Prison Communication Platform” ↗The Schemer's Guide was designed for paper and pen https://www.amazon.com/Schemers-Guide-Iain-Ferguson/dp/09628... D is for Digital is a good survey and has some Javascript programming info, Amazon has the second version…
on “Ask HN: Learning to code, without a computer?” ↗…https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~112/schedule.html or they can just teach themselves later however they want as the goal is just get them interested in computation. There's another book out of print called The Schemer's Guide by Iain Ferguson, which was geared for highschool students and could be done entirely in pen and paper. You can buy it used off Abe Books or amazon for $10 and just hand out illicit photocopies.
on “Ask HN: Curriculum for a Computer Science crash course” ↗Many years ago, I TA'ed a class that did exactly that, teaching Scheme to gifted students ages 12 to 15. The text we used was "The Schemer's Guide" by Iain Ferguson, supplemented with a large helping of locally-prepared material about propositional logic, recursion, Turing machines, etc. In that way, Scheme comes across as a natural implementation…
on “The Little JavaScripter” ↗