The Seasoned Schemer Second Edition

Author : Daniel P. Friedman,Matthias Felleisen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-12-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 026256100X

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The Seasoned Schemer, second edition by Daniel P. Friedman,Matthias Felleisen Pdf

The notion that "thinking about computing is one of the most exciting things the human mind can do" sets both The Little Schemer (formerly known as The Little LISPer) and its new companion volume, The Seasoned Schemer, apart from other books on LISP. The authors' enthusiasm for their subject is compelling as they present abstract concepts in a humorous and easy-to-grasp fashion. Together, these books will open new doors of thought to anyone who wants to find out what computing is really about. The Little Schemer introduces computing as an extension of arithmetic and algebra; things that everyone studies in grade school and high school. It introduces programs as recursive functions and briefly discusses the limits of what computers can do. The authors use the programming language Scheme, and interesting foods to illustrate these abstract ideas. The Seasoned Schemer informs the reader about additional dimensions of computing: functions as values, change of state, and exceptional cases. The Little LISPer has been a popular introduction to LISP for many years. It had appeared in French and Japanese. The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer are worthy successors and will prove equally popular as textbooks for Scheme courses as well as companion texts for any complete introductory course in Computer Science.

Author : Daniel P. Friedman,William E. Byrd,Oleg Kiselyov,Jason Hemann
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262535519

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The Reasoned Schemer, second edition by Daniel P. Friedman,William E. Byrd,Oleg Kiselyov,Jason Hemann Pdf

A new edition of a book, written in a humorous question-and-answer style, that shows how to implement and use an elegant little programming language for logic programming. The goal of this book is to show the beauty and elegance of relational programming, which captures the essence of logic programming. The book shows how to implement a relational programming language in Scheme, or in any other functional language, and demonstrates the remarkable flexibility of the resulting relational programs. As in the first edition, the pedagogical method is a series of questions and answers, which proceed with the characteristic humor that marked The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer. Familiarity with a functional language or with the first five chapters of The Little Schemer is assumed. For this second edition, the authors have greatly simplified the programming language used in the book, as well as the implementation of the language. In addition to revising the text extensively, and simplifying and revising the “Laws” and “Commandments,” they have added explicit “Translation” rules to ease translation of Scheme functions into relations.

Author : Daniel P. Friedman,Matthias Felleisen
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015016520481

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The Little LISPer by Daniel P. Friedman,Matthias Felleisen Pdf

Author : Daniel P. Friedman,Mitchell Wand
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262062794

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Essentials of Programming Languages, third edition by Daniel P. Friedman,Mitchell Wand Pdf

A new edition of a textbook that provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages, completely revised, with significant new material. This book provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages. Most of these essentials relate to the semantics, or meaning, of program elements, and the text uses interpreters (short programs that directly analyze an abstract representation of the program text) to express the semantics of many essential language elements in a way that is both clear and executable. The approach is both analytical and hands-on. The book provides views of programming languages using widely varying levels of abstraction, maintaining a clear connection between the high-level and low-level views. Exercises are a vital part of the text and are scattered throughout; the text explains the key concepts, and the exercises explore alternative designs and other issues. The complete Scheme code for all the interpreters and analyzers in the book can be found online through The MIT Press web site. For this new edition, each chapter has been revised and many new exercises have been added. Significant additions have been made to the text, including completely new chapters on modules and continuation-passing style. Essentials of Programming Languages can be used for both graduate and undergraduate courses, and for continuing education courses for programmers.

Author : George Springer,Daniel P. Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Computer programming
ISBN : UCR:31210011622071

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Scheme and the Art of Programming by George Springer,Daniel P. Friedman Pdf

This is the first introduction to computer programming text to focus on functional programming which is not too mathematically rigorous for freshmen. The text features an introduction to the Scheme programming language and real-world examples and exercises which are easy to follow and learn from.

Author : Matthias Felleisen,Daniel P. Friedman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262561158

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A Little Java, a Few Patterns by Matthias Felleisen,Daniel P. Friedman Pdf

foreword by Ralph E. Johnson and drawings by Duane Bibby 'This is a book of 'why' not 'how.' If you are interested in the nature of computation and curious about the very idea behind object orientation, this book is for you. This book will engage your brain (if not your tummy). Through its sparkling interactive style, you will learn about three essential OO concepts: interfaces, visitors, and factories. A refreshing change from the 'yet another Java book' phenomenon. Every serious Java programmer should own a copy.' -- Gary McGraw, Ph.D., Research Scientist at Reliable Software Technologies and coauthor of Java Security Java is a new object-oriented programming language that was developed by Sun Microsystems for programming the Internet and intelligent appliances. In a very short time it has become one of the most widely used programming languages for education as well as commercial applications. Design patterns, which have moved object-oriented programming to a new level, provide programmers with a language to communicate with others about their designs. As a result, programs become more readable, more reusable, and more easily extensible. In this book, Matthias Felleisen and Daniel Friedman use a small subset of Java to introduce pattern-directed program design. With their usual clarity and flair, they gently guide readers through the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and pattern-based design. Readers new to programming, as well as those with some background, will enjoy their learning experience as they work their way through Felleisen and Friedman's dialogue. src='/graphics/yellowball.gif' href='/books/FELTP/Java-fm.html'Foreword and Preface

Author : R. Kent Dybvig
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015037350553

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The Scheme Programming Language by R. Kent Dybvig Pdf

Basic, no nonsense introduction to the programming language Scheme

Author : Daniel P. Friedman,David Thrane Christiansen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262536431

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The Little Typer by Daniel P. Friedman,David Thrane Christiansen Pdf

An introduction to dependent types, demonstrating the most beautiful aspects, one step at a time. A program's type describes its behavior. Dependent types are a first-class part of a language, and are much more powerful than other kinds of types; using just one language for types and programs allows program descriptions to be as powerful as the programs they describe. The Little Typer explains dependent types, beginning with a very small language that looks very much like Scheme and extending it to cover both programming with dependent types and using dependent types for mathematical reasoning. Readers should be familiar with the basics of a Lisp-like programming language, as presented in the first four chapters of The Little Schemer. The first five chapters of The Little Typer provide the needed tools to understand dependent types; the remaining chapters use these tools to build a bridge between mathematics and programming. Readers will learn that tools they know from programming—pairs, lists, functions, and recursion—can also capture patterns of reasoning. The Little Typer does not attempt to teach either practical programming skills or a fully rigorous approach to types. Instead, it demonstrates the most beautiful aspects as simply as possible, one step at a time.

Author : Matthias Felleisen,Robert Bruce Findler,Matthew Flatt,Shriram Krishnamurthi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262344128

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How to Design Programs, second edition by Matthias Felleisen,Robert Bruce Findler,Matthew Flatt,Shriram Krishnamurthi Pdf

A completely revised edition, offering new design recipes for interactive programs and support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming. This introduction to programming places computer science at the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike other introductory books, it focuses on the program design process, presenting program design guidelines that show the reader how to analyze a problem statement, how to formulate concise goals, how to make up examples, how to develop an outline of the solution, how to finish the program, and how to test it. Because learning to design programs is about the study of principles and the acquisition of transferable skills, the text does not use an off-the-shelf industrial language but presents a tailor-made teaching language. For the same reason, it offers DrRacket, a programming environment for novices that supports playful, feedback-oriented learning. The environment grows with readers as they master the material in the book until it supports a full-fledged language for the whole spectrum of programming tasks. This second edition has been completely revised. While the book continues to teach a systematic approach to program design, the second edition introduces different design recipes for interactive programs with graphical interfaces and batch programs. It also enriches its design recipes for functions with numerous new hints. Finally, the teaching languages and their IDE now come with support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming.

Author : Brian Harvey,Matthew Wright
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262082810

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Simply Scheme by Brian Harvey,Matthew Wright Pdf

Showing off scheme - Functions - Expressions - Defining your own procedures - Words and sentences - True and false - Variables - Higher-order functions - Lambda - Introduction to recursion - The leap of faith - How recursion works - Common patterns in recursive procedures - Advanced recursion - Example : the functions program - Files - Vectors - Example : a spreadsheet program - Implementing the spreadsheet program - What's next?

Author : Mitchell Zuckoff
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812968361

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Ponzi's Scheme by Mitchell Zuckoff Pdf

It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury–and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true. Promising to double investors’ money in three months, the dapper, charming Ponzi raised the “rob Peter to pay Paul” scam to an art form. At the peak of his success, Ponzi was raking in more than $2 million a week at his office in downtown Boston. Then his house of cards came crashing down–thanks in large part to the relentless investigative reporting of Richard Grozier’s Boston Post. A classic American tale of immigrant life and the dream of success, Ponzi’s Scheme is the amazing story of the magnetic scoundrel who launched the most successful scheme of financial alchemy in modern history.

Author : Greg Michaelson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486280295

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An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus by Greg Michaelson Pdf

Well-respected text for computer science students provides an accessible introduction to functional programming. Cogent examples illuminate the central ideas, and numerous exercises offer reinforcement. Includes solutions. 1989 edition.

Author : Daniel P. Friedman,Carl Eastlund
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262330572

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The Little Prover by Daniel P. Friedman,Carl Eastlund Pdf

An introduction to writing proofs about computer programs, written in an accessible question-and-answer style, complete with step-by-step examples and a simple proof assistant. The Little Prover introduces inductive proofs as a way to determine facts about computer programs. It is written in an approachable, engaging style of question-and-answer, with the characteristic humor of The Little Schemer (fourth edition, MIT Press). Sometimes the best way to learn something is to sit down and do it; the book takes readers through step-by-step examples showing how to write inductive proofs. The Little Prover assumes only knowledge of recursive programs and lists (as presented in the first three chapters of The Little Schemer) and uses only a few terms beyond what novice programmers already know. The book comes with a simple proof assistant to help readers work through the book and complete solutions to every example.

Author : Daniel P. Friedman,Mitchell Wand,Christopher Thomas Haynes
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262062178

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Essentials of Programming Languages by Daniel P. Friedman,Mitchell Wand,Christopher Thomas Haynes Pdf

This textbook offers an understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages. The text uses interpreters, written in Scheme, to express the semantics of many essential language elements in a way that is both clear and directly executable.

Author : Peter Seibel
Publisher : Apress
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781430200178

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Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel Pdf

* Treats LISP as a language for commercial applications, not a language for academic AI concerns. This could be considered to be a secondary text for the Lisp course that most schools teach . This would appeal to students who sat through a LISP course in college without quite getting it – so a "nostalgia" approach, as in "wow-lisp can be practical..." * Discusses the Lisp programming model and environment. Contains an introduction to the language and gives a thorough overview of all of Common Lisp’s main features. * Designed for experienced programmers no matter what languages they may be coming from and written for a modern audience—programmers who are familiar with languages like Java, Python, and Perl. * Includes several examples of working code that actually does something useful like Web programming and database access.