Please Vote: Exercises in TDPL?

[Bill Baxter]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> A chunky fragment of TDPL will hit Rough Cuts soon enough. I'm pondering
> whether I should be adding exercises to the book. Some books have them, some
> don't.
>
> Pros: As I'm writing, I've come up with some pretty darn cool exercise
> ideas.
>
> Cons: The book gets larger, takes longer to write, and I never solved the
> exercises in the books I've read, but then I'm just weird.
>
> What do you think?

I learned Scheme on my own using SICP and I found the exercises there
to be quite valuable in verifying that I actually understood* what was
going on.

[*] or didn't understand, as was frequently the case. :-)