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Guile Reference Manuals

Guile's reference manual is included in each Guile distribution and should be accessible, once you have installed Guile, via Emacs's Info mode. We also provide a copy of the reference manual for each recent Guile release series here.

• Reference Manual for Guile 1.8 (the current stable release series)
• Reference Manual for Guile 1.6 (the previous stable release series)
• Reference Manual for Guile 1.9.x (beta pre-release series leading up to Guile 2.0)

The GOOPS Manual

GOOPS is the Guile Object-Oriented Programming System, and is now included (along with its manual) in the Guile distribution. Here is an online copy of the GOOPS manual.

Guile Tutorials

This tutorial by David Drysdale explains step-by-step how to use guile in a straightforward Logo-like ("turtle graphics") application. He writes in the Colophon:

I wrote this page because I really needed something like it when I started playing with Guile - I actually wrote the page as I figured out how to do things.

However it uses APIs that are not present in the latest versions of Guile. Daniel Kraft recently updated the tutorial to use current Guile APIs, and added some more material of his own. Daniel's updated version is here (Texinfo source).

The Guile Book

An excellent book by Michael Gran about using Guile 1.6.