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From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
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Subject: Re: Texts on fundamentals of programming/computer science
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Date: 1 Apr 89 17:39:38 GMT
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In article <1203@microsoft.UUCP> w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb) writes:
>It isn't C, and it's pretty heavy going alone, but "The Structure and
>Interpretation of Computer Programs", by Abelson & Sussman (the textbook
>for the first year CS intro for CS and EE programs at MIT) will teach
>almost anyone a hell of a lot.  This goes for rank beginners through
>Dennis Ritchie.  The C-Scheme compiler is available from MIT.
>

I second the motion. It uses Scheme (actually a small subset that can
be taught in a class or two) to cover most of the common programming
paradigms. The approach to problem sets in the class at MIT was great
- they would give you lots of code and you would then have to figure
it out and then modify or extend it. Much more of a real-world
approach than writing everything from scratch. 

				Peter Desnoyers