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Simply Scheme - 2nd Edition: Introducing Computer Science

Posted By: johinson
Simply Scheme - 2nd Edition: Introducing Computer Science

Brian Harvey, Matthew Wright, «Simply Scheme - 2nd Edition: Introducing Computer Science»
MIT Press | ISBN: 0262082810 | 1999 | PDF | 611 pages | 2.54 MB

Should programming be a matter of learning where to put the semicolon and goto? According to Harvey and Wright, absolutely not. Programming, especially when you're starting off, is about the big picture, learning how to use your imagination and not your grammar. The authors use Scheme, a dialect of Lisp, as their base. Scheme and Lisp are symbolic programs that let you create programs that will write programs. Exercises throughout with Scheme help you get up to speed quickly and even have a good time. The first half of the book makes you comfortable with functions, leading you to projects involving bridge games and tic-tac-toe. In the second half, you deal with recursion, abstraction, files, and vectors. By the end of these chapters, you're ready to use Scheme to tackle databases and spreadsheets. Simply Scheme proves that programming can be accessible as long as it stimulates, rather than deadens, the imagination. This book will give you a sense of the inner workings of computer applications like no other.