[kapv89]

- Read SICP

- Understand how all programs can be written as lists of lists of lists... and so on

- Pick up the language that you work in. Identify what construct of that language allows you to approximate scheme/lisp lists. For me this is objects in java & php, and functions in javascript

- Code your program as a list of lists of lists... in the language of your choice.

- Congrats, you got OOP

[eru]

Doesn't SICP stress closures more than lists? (And this list-heavy approach only really works in a dynamically typed language.)

[kapv89]

I have used it just fine in Java. "dependency injection" looks a lot like lists-of-lists...

And SICP talks about a lot more than any particular constructs. Its the sort of book you can come back to, and take what you need to go further.

[eru]

I've recently actually done the latter, and gone back to SICP. Alas, it shows its age badly: it's too untyped for my tastes these days.

Yes, you can emulate dynamic typing in statically typed languages---but why would you want to if the static type system is expressive enough? (I can see how in Java dynamic typing might be the smaller hassle.)