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As I understand it, Scheme was intended to be a dialect suitable for teaching programming. The usual first texts are The Little Schemer, How to Design Programs (https://htdp.org/ but apparently a third edition is forthcoming: https://felleisen.org/matthias/HtDP3e/index.html) and the inestimable SICP: http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13918465)

"A bad day writing code in Scheme is better than a good day writing code in C." —David Stigant

In another man's opinion, "Common Lisp is the best language to learn programming":

Another resource for learning Common Lisp is Stuart C. Shapiro's Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach: https://cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/

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Harvey and Wright's _Simply Scheme_ is another excellent book that does not get enough mention.

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