[dark-star]

Wow, I would really like to get this book to complete my set of the Little Schemer, the Seasoned Schemer and the Reasoned Schemer. But 55$ is almost twice as expensive as the other books. Yes, it is bigger than those but still...

Have to think about this for a while :)

[sritchie]

Rated on dollars per hour of brain upgrades, thinking and enjoyment, it doesn’t get better than a good book.

[dunham]

The little schemer is $40 now, reasoned schemer is $30, and the little typer is $38 (about twice as thick as the other two).

I had to think on the little schemer, but grabbed it because my ten year old said that the little typer was "interesting", and I thought he might learn something from it.

Probably should finish working through what I have before getting another, though.

[kccqzy]

Your ten-year-old was interested in dependent types? You can turn to the back of the book and show him that truths begin with 𝚪 ⊢

[scruple]

There's also "The Little Typer" and "The Little Prover."

[legerdemain]

In the same series, there's also "A Little Java" by Matthias Felleisen, one of the creators of Racket (a popular Lisp).

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262561150/a-little-java-a-few-p...

[bainsfather]

Is it still good? I see it was published in 1997.

I like the style of these books, and might read this one - I'm just worried that Java has changed quite a bit since then. Is it still, say, 90% OK?

[legerdemain]

It's mostly a novelty today. Felleisen is a programming language theorist, and him writing a little Java tutorial sounds absurd.

The book itself takes you on a journey to reinvent the Visitor pattern, in a version of Java that predates generics. You can probably find a better explainer for the Visitor pattern in Java.

[bainsfather]

Thanks. I see it for sale for £4 second hand, so maybe I should buy it for the novelty value alone. I presume I shouldn't try to refresh my java from it though.

[tjr]

And The Little MLer.

[naraic0o]

Which, it seems, is out of print and I guess because a lot of people want a complete set of this series, costs > 500USD to buy used?? Woah. I should get my hands on the others while they're still in print.

[troupe]

You aren't helping him. :)

[dark-star]

yeah, I just realized that too. screw it, I'll just grab all of them ;-)