Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!decwrl!shelby!bloom-beacon!ALLEGHENY.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM!vanMeule From: vanMeule@ALLEGHENY.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (Andre van Meulebrouck) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: Scheme book by Springer and Friedman Message-ID: <19891215071609.2.VANMEULE@PERTA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> Date: 15 Dec 89 07:16:00 GMT References: Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root) Organization: The Internet Lines: 35 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 89 13:15:43 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Sherman Is anyone familar with the book "Scheme and the Art of Programming" by Springer & Friedman (MIT Press)? I'm looking for something for bright high school students. (Please respond to me, I don't normally read this newgroup, thanks.) -Mark I just skimmed it, looking over every page briefly, so take my comments with that in mind. I bought it because it has a nice section on continuations (which I felt I could profit from to become more comfortable with them), and for reference purposes because it does go into some pretty deep and interesting examples that show not just Scheme, but various programming paradigms and how to use them (in a similar manner to "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"'s approach). The latter is especially nice as Scheme, elegant as it is, is ultimately "just" a vehicle by which to express algorithms and concepts, so some discussion of what to "say" once you learn "speak" Scheme is important (as well as the comments here and there as to why it might perhaps be easier to say them in Scheme than in other languages). The book seems to me to be very concise, complete, readable, and text-bookish (in that I believe it has lots of exercises, almost like a math book) so I should think it would suit your purposes well. My *real* intent in replying to this message however was to change the subject , as it reminded me about a book I'm curious about. Specifically, has anyone looked at a copy of the (relatively) recent "Introduction to Functional Programming" by Bird and Wadler of Oxford and Glasgow Universities (Prentice Hall, March 1988)?