Little Koskari

A first programming language, taught by asking. Each chapter is a run of questions with their answers beside them. Read the question, decide what you think the answer is, then read the answer. When a rule appears in a box, it is one to keep; there are only a handful.

You need the Quickstart done first, so that koskari starts a REPL and you have run a file. The REPL prompt is >>> : a line starting with it is something you type, and the line below is what Koskari shows. When a form is not finished at the end of a line, the prompt becomes ... and you keep typing.

• Words and punctuation
• Calling things
• Results and messages
• Names and nesting
• Making choices
• Tiny functions
• Lists
• Text
• Lists that shrink
• A program
• Where next