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[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

Henri, 
 that's a great idea! Just this morning I showed to my 13yo son how to use 
TeXmacs to type in his math exercises... he seems appreciate the better 
quality wrt to Word :)

m


> On 26. Mar 2020, at 09:11, HG <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Thank you :)
> 
> I remenber I am french lol and I thaught of looking in french tutorial, in 
> fact there is a lot !
> 
> I am looking for drawing and graphics  because the quarantine my son son 8 
> ans old has some maths to do. On w10 scheme seems the best integrated  in 
> texmacs ?
> 
> I could use geogebra sagemath but I like texmacs for the nice presentation 
> and I would like to do a kind of tutorial for CE1 kids (8ans) and upper. 
> Not only in maths but in french and others languages (chinese my wife 
> being).
> 
> Thank you all for your good help, it's important to not feel alone in these 
> moments
> 
> best
> 
> Henri
> 
> Le 25/03/2020 à 22:41, Giovanni Piredda a écrit :
>> 
>> On 25.03.20 21:48, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
>>> There is documentation in the manual about scheme:
>>> 
>>> Help -> Scheme extensions -> Overview of the scheme extension language.
>>> 
>>> For general knowledge about the language you can read any tutorial, there 
>>> are many here:
>>> 
>>> https://schemers.org
>>> 
>>> hth,
>>> m
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Two tutorials which I liked are
>> 
>> http://ds26gte.github.io/tyscheme/index.html
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> http://www.shido.info/lisp/idx_scm_e.html
>> 
>> (the last one seems simpler to me).
>> 
>> 
>> The reference to Guile (the implementation of Scheme use by TeXmacs) is
>> 
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.8/guile-ref/
>> 
>> and one could use as well references to other implementations as one could 
>> find some of the descriptions easier to follow (but one has to keep in 
>> mind that the details, e.g. which functions are defined, are different)
>> 
>> MIT Scheme:
>> 
>> https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scheme-7.4/doc-html/scheme_toc.html
>>  
>> 
>> Racket:
>> 
>> https://docs.racket-lang.org/
>> 
>> I have a quite rough knowledge of the language, but I start "feeling" that 
>> the way to use it is through function composition, not through a sequence 
>> of instructions (like one does in Fortran for example). It "feels" like 
>> building "things" with "objects" that become more complex (inside) as the 
>> work goes on but nevertheless "fit together".
>> 
>> But maybe it is just my imagination ;-)
>>