Motto: "I have a mismatched parenthesis somewhere..."
The Scheme Workshop is a self-teaching initiative undertaken exclusively by Kitchen Budapest researchers. It goes on several hours every week in a single session. There is no project leader but members helping each other in developing their skills using freely available resources from the net. Inspired by the hackers of the 1960s working in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the legends about the mysterious languages they used, we have decided to try our brains on Scheme, a so-called "simple" dialect of the LISP programming language family. These languages are often used for teaching programming because they display a high degree of conceptual elegance compared to other, "non-funcional" languages. We are using the resources provided by the PLT group, a group of people who produce a Scheme environment, and a textbook for introductory Scheme programming. We want to learn a different style of programming and to acquire live coding abilities. Live coding is the process of writing software in real-time as part of a performance. Fluxus and Impromptu are two live-coding environments built for Scheme.