The Scheme Programming Language

By R. Kent Dybvig and Dybvig

Book Overview

An introduction to scheme and a reference manual for ANSI standard Scheme.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 013791864X
• ISBN13: 9780137918645
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Very good book for learning.

Very good book for learning. You can follow many examples with a running Scheme interpreter; I recommend it as a must.

GOOD STUFF

Good book. To the point. Doesn't waste time with fluffy words. Excellent. I learned Scheme in a few days from this book. Scheme is like C on steroids. I like C, I hate C++ and Java. Calculus is entirely about functions, not objects. And I don't see people saying oh, Calculus is weak because it isn't object oriented. BLECH. Teach me to fish, don't give me one.

A "must have" and a "must read". Excellent book.

As I said in a past review to the second edition, this book is wonderful. This book has convinced me to migrate from Common Lisp to Scheme. This is a serious book for the one that really wants to learn about Scheme and require careful study and a strong motivation. Please note: if you are really interested to learn Scheme, then this book is for you; if you are not really interested and/or you like to joke, this book is absolutely not for you. The book is accurate, complete, well written and cover all you need about the modern Scheme. I use Scheme for personal study about bioinformatics. Thanks to the Autor.

Excellent, but beware!

To be honest, without this book, I would have certainly failed "Programming Introduction", a course I had to attend last semester. This book teaches you everything you need to know about such a complex language as Scheme, giving you deep and abstract examples of recursion. At the end, you will be able to solve the toughest problems using all the elements recursion has to offer, thus making your programs easy and short. However, you must beware of the following. This book has a high technical language, and sometimes, the examples get too complex for one to understand. If you have some experience in programming, this a must for you! However, if you are beginning to programm, or if you are too used to iteration, you can get into this book but will find some trouble understanding some of the recursive structures. However, learning a level of Scheme complexity like the one this book teaches will help you get used to some commands that many other books don't even mention.

A must read

A few words only: this book is wonderful. It is a "must read". I like Lisp. I migrate to Scheme and this book was my companion. If you want to learn Scheme, this book is for you, really.