A review by danarama
The Little Schemer by Duane Bibby, Matthias Felleisen, Gerald J. Sussman, Daniel P. Friedman

I'm not sure how to rate this one :P Most of the book was fun. I enjoyed its Q&A style but after going through it all, I'm iffy on Scheme itself as a programming language. It's obviously powerful but I struggle with its form. When expressions get a bit complicated, they become a quagmire of parentheses.

One criticism: the book really hammers home Scheme's style of recursive definitions but at the end you don't have what you need to sit down and write programs in Scheme.

Finally, I didn't really get the chapter on the Y-Combinator. It's going to take me some more studying!