Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!asuvax!mcdphx!jazz!lynn From: lynn@phx.mcd.mot.com (Lynn D Newton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: ULTRA BEGINNER NEEDS DOCS! Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 18:41:00 GMT Sender: listen@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com Distribution: comp Organization: Motorola MCD Lines: 53 Hello, Scheme people. I am brand spanking new to Scheme (starting today), and know precious little about any other dialect of LISP. (I have used GNU Emacs for over 3 years, and can hack a little code.) Here's my problem: I have a job assignment to get familiar and fluent with Scheme in a very big hurry. I have Scheme itself, running inside emacs, no less, and have a prototype application that Scheme will run, which I am going to be expected to continue developing. Meanwhile, I have been fed a list of books titles on the subject, none of which I can find. I would appreciate it if any kind reader who knows where I can obtain the following books immediately, and who ships FedEx, would send me a phone number of the place that sells them so I could order pronto.: "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson and Sussman, McGraw-Hill, 1985. "Scheme and the Art of Programming" by Springer and Friedman, MIT Press and McGraw Hill 1989. "The Scheme Programming Language" by Kent Dybvig, Prentice Hall 1987. Also, I understand that the following publications are available for ftp from some location, but I don't know where. I didn't see them on either prep.ai.mit.edu or altdorf.ai.mit.edu, unless I just didn't know what I was looking at. "The Revised Revised Revised Revised Scheme Reference Manual" "MIT Scheme Manual (Rev. 3)" (don't know exact title, but presume you folks out there do) "MIT Scheme Reference for Extensions" (also don't know exact title) Any help that is offered would be much appreciated. Email will get to me faster than posting a reply. -- ================================================================= Lynn D. Newton | System Test Motorola Core Engineering | (Department of Heuristic Neology) Tempe, AZ | "The bug stops here!" (602) 438-3739 | lynn@jazz.phx.mcd.mot.com |