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- From: man@morayeel.micro.umn.edu (Man Nguyen)
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- Subject: Re: What are good references on learning Scheme
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 04:57:12 GMT
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- >What are some good books on Scheme? I currently have only PC Scheme's
- >User's Guide and Reference Manual. Thanks!
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- >Chang Yoon
- >c/o pmathis@utdallas.edu
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- >BTW: I have had some Lisp experence, but not much.
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- If you really want to commit the time to learn Scheme from the view-point
- of algorithms and ideas, I strongly recommend Structure and Interpretation
- of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman. I used it to
- learn Scheme last spring and fell it love with it. It's not a book about the
- syntax -- it hardly discusses syntax at all. Instead, it introduces you to
- some fascinating ideas in computer science. It's a pure book -- not meant
- as a tutorial or anything really practical in the imperative sense.
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- I am a sophomore at the University of Minnesota -- double majoring in CSci
- and EE. Right now I'm writing a proposal to assist in the instruction of
- Scheme. Honestly, Scheme is an excellent "thinker's" language and SICP
- really demonstrates it. It's good reading -- worth reading word-for-word.
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- Possible project: How about implementing an AC circuit simulator or a
- Motorola 65C02 "interpreter"? Throw some ideas at me, I need some fascinating
- ideas for my proposal.
-
- Man Nguyen
- man@mermaid.micro.umn.edu
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