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If you want to do Scheme programming at home, then you need to install a Scheme programming environment on your computer. There are several freely available Scheme programming environments available for downloading from the Internet.
This page shows you how to install and begin using a Scheme programming environment called DrScheme. DrScheme was specifically designed for teaching programming and it has a lot of interesting and innovative features that help you to understand programming (as opposed to just helping you to do programming, as in most integrated development environments).
- Step 1:
- First you need to go to the DrScheme download page and download an installer program. The installer for MS Windows is only about 5 MB in size.
- Step 1.5 (Optional):
- If you want more documentation, you can also download the following two files (from the PLT Documentation page).
PLT MrEd: Graphical Toolbox Manual (700 KB)
PLT Framework: GUI Application Framework (667 KB)
- Step 2:
- Run the installer that you downloaded in step one above.
- Step 2.5 (Optional):
- If you downloaded the optional documentation files in step 1.5, then just double click on each one. The DrScheme installation will take care of installing the documentation.
- Step 3:
- You should test your installation of DrScheme. Find the "PLT Scheme" program group in the "Start Menu" and click on the "DrScheme" icon in that program group. You should see a window that is split into upper and lower sub-windows, as in this help page from A Brief Tour of DrScheme. Read the first few sections of the Tour and then try to duplicate the definitions and the interactions shown in this help page.
To get a bit further along in learning to use Scheme, read Sections 2.1 and 2.2 from the online textbook, The Scheme Programming Language.
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