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Re: Scheme book recommendations
- To: David Vrabel <dv207 at hermes dot cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Scheme book recommendations
- From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>
- Date: 05 Jun 2000 14:53:29 +0200
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Cc: djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
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David Vrabel <dv207@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> Does any one have any recommendations for books on Scheme (online or
> paper)?
Dybvig's "The Scheme Programming Language" (Prentice Hall) is
excellent. It's for programmers who like a compact and to-the-point
presentation.
Springer and Friedman's "Scheme and the Art of Programming" is an
excellent book for the beginner.
Abelson and Sussman's SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer
Programs) is the Bible. Everone should read it sooner or later (it's
a bit heavy to read). It teaches Scheme, but is in fact a general
computer science textbook.
Dorai Sitaram has made a very good online tutorial for Scheme. (I
think you can reach it from the web pages of the PLT group at Rice
university.)