Re: Guix learning exercices

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Hey Marius!

I am Guix and scheme newbie myself. I can't provide you with concrete learning 
materials, just some tips from my journey.

I have learned a ton by working on a real project, namely, I try to port guix 
to a custom arm32 board using cross compilation. Cross compilation seems to be 
undersupported, so I stumbled upon multiple bugs, which I tried and partly 
succeeded to fix. Most of the time I spend reading the guix source code and try 
to understand what is going on. By doing so I learned a lot about how to write 
package definition, how to setup dev env using guix shell, how the mail driven 
development process works and much more. 

Have you considered a similiar approach for you? Maybe you are missing a 
package where you could provide a package definition. Or you look for a bug on 
the Issue tracker you could fix? For me getting my hands dirty and working 
towards a defined goal works best as learning process.

Best regards

Christoph