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Programming with Escher is a collection of educational notes for a code camp series introducing young computer science students to functional geometry concepts. Based on Peter Henderson's Functional Geometry paper, it… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Programming with Escher launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   The Changelog - #191: Elm and Functional Programming with Richard Feldman▲65

   The best of functional programming in your browser

   2016 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

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   I wrote a technical history book on Lisp▲252

   The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…

   Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →

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   Functional Programming for Kids: Interactive Tutorial▲40

   An interactive functional programming course for children based on clojure and klipse - viebel/kids.klipse.tech

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   I'm writing a leanpub book about Common Lisp web programming▲107

   2013 · lispwebtales.ppenev.com · its alternatives →

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   Maybe Haskell▲60

   See what it’s like to program in a language without null.

   2015 · books.thoughtbot.com · its alternatives →

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   DSLCad – a programming language and interpreter for building 3D models▲198

   Hey HN. Over the last half a year I have been working on a 3D CAD programming language called DSLCAD. Today I am here to show my first release! It is heavily inspired by OpenSCAD which got me hooked on the idea of a CAD programming language and what it can do. Please let me know what you think. Ill be in the thread to answer any questions you may have.

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   A modernized and annotated code companion to Paul Graham's “On Lisp”▲93

   A modernized and annotated code companion to Paul Graham's "On Lisp". - DalekBaldwin/on-lisp

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language▲60

   Stephen Wolfram's new book on the Wolfram Language

   2015 · wolfram.com · its alternatives →

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   Redesigned: Escherpad, a collaborative math and code notebook▲6

   2015 · escherpad.com · its alternatives →

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    Programming Pearls▲71

    Clever solutions to classic programming problems

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    My winter project, BlockLike.js, an educational JavaScript library▲35

    2018 · blocklike.org · its alternatives →

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    Synthesize TikZ Graphics Programs for Scientific Figures and Sketches▲132

    Creating high-quality scientific figures can be time-consuming and challenging, even though sketching ideas on paper is relatively easy. Furthermore, recreating existing figures that are not stored in formats preserving semantic information is equally complex. To tackle this problem, we introduce DeTikZify, a novel multimodal language model that automatically synthesizes scientific figures as semantics-preserving TikZ graphics programs based on sketches and existing figures. We also introduce a Monte Carlo Tree Search-based inference algorithm that enables DeTikZify to iteratively refine its…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Blocklike.js Educational Library – So kids can level up from Scratch▲88

    Bridging the gap between block programming and JavaScript. - ronilan/BlockLike

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Purely Functional Data Structures▲61

    A guide to functional programming

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Visualizing 'Silhouettes' of Programming Languages▲97

    2017 · lelandbatey.com · its alternatives →

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    Haskell Programming▲66

    Great book with a low barrier to entry for learning Haskell

    2016 · haskellbook.com · its alternatives →

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    A Pattern Language▲68

    Applying Patterns to Solve Design Problems

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Podcast.__init__ Episode 46 - Functional Python with Alexander Schepanovsky and Matthew Rocklin▲51

    Functional programming in Python

    2016 · pythonpodcast.com · its alternatives →

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    Awl, a toy Lisp language written in C and transpiled to JavaScript▲8

    2014 · skepsi.me · its alternatives →

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    I made a programming language with Spotify playlists▲33

    just a wack systems dude tbh

    2018 · h313.info · its alternatives →

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    Common Lisp tutorials with OpenGL graphics▲7

    2023 · youtube.com · its alternatives →

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    A .Net Lisp interpreter with First Class Macros, Continuations▲7

    2012 · patient0.github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Lispy Calculator in under 50 Lines of OCaml▲15

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Haskell programmable-CAD environment, in the browser with WASM▲6

    Interactive Haskell Powered CAD Playground

    Jul 2026 · doscienceto.it · its alternatives →

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