Please Vote: Exercises in TDPL?

[Georg Wrede]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> 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. :-)

Yup. Same here. :-(

Incidentally, here, or in D.learn, somebody was asking for symbolic 
derivation with D templates. I think one of the excercises in SICP was 
to write a lisp snippet that did just that.

Awesome stuff, through and through.