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Title: The Seasoned Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen ISBN: 0-262-56100-X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 21 December, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent book on thinking recursively
Comment: This book is the second half of "The Little Schemer". It expects you to have mastered the previous volume, so it starts fast and picks up speed from there.
It covers a lot of ground in a slim volume (just as in "The Little Schemer"). This book introduces the concepts of closures and call-with-current-continuation (among other things).
As with "The Little Schemer", this book's strength is in its socratic instruction method. Lessons are written and illustrated as conversations between the reader and the instructor (in question/answer format). While this sounds strange, it is actually surprisingly effective as a means of learning the material. It might seem somewhat like rote instruction, but it can often frame foreign concepts in a rememberable fashion.
Neither of these books require much in the way of background or familiarity with the material. They were created as a means of teaching non-programmers to program in Scheme. However, I think they hold value for trained programmers as well.
Rating: 4
Summary: solid material - interesting format
Comment: Dialogue style makes this book fun to read. Leitmotif of food examples keeps the tone light and the reader hungry. Have the number for pizza handy before you sit down for this book.
Focuses on the use of functions in scheme, in an easy reading, enjoyable style. My only minor criticism is that the typographic conventions make the code hard to read. I realize that they serve a purpose, but it made the typesetting ugly.
An admirable work, suitable for reading even if you already "know it all", just because of its approach to teaching.
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Title: Instructor's Manual t/a Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition by Julie Sussman ISBN: 0262692201 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Scheme Programming Language : Third Edition by R. Kent Dybvig ISBN: 0262541483 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman ISBN: 0262011530 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 25 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: ANSI Common LISP by Paul Graham ISBN: 0133708756 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 02 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $47.00 |
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Title: How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi ISBN: 0262062186 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 12 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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